Job 3:16

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Job 3:1-26

Silent sympathy always creates an opportunity for grief to express itself. Job's outcry was undoubtedly an answer to their sympathy. So far, it was good, and they had helped him. It is always better to tell out the dark questionings of the heart than to brood over them. This lamentation of Job is of the nature of a cry for escape, rather than a description of the oppressing sorrows. In it there are three movements. The first consists of a terrible cursing of the day of his birth and the night... read more

Robert Neighbour

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Job 3:1-26

Job's Sorrows and Sighs Job 2:9-13 ; Job 3:1-26 INTRODUCTORY WORDS In this study we will consider the verses which lie in the second chapter of Job beginning with verse nine where we left off in the former study and continuing through verse thirteen. 1. A helpmeet who proved a hindrance. Job's wife came unto him in verse nine of chapter two and said unto him, "Dost thou still retain thine integrity, curse God, and die." If ever there was a time that Job needed words of sympathy and of love... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Job 3:1-20

Job 3:1-Proverbs : . Job’ s Lamentation.— Here the later poem begins, and at once we pass into another world. The patient Job of the Volksbuch is gone, and we have instead one who complains bitterly that ever he was born. This cry of misery is thrice repeated, ever in deepening pathos ( Job 3:1-2 Samuel :, Job 3:11-Psalms :, Job 3:20-Ezekiel :). Job 3:1-2 Samuel : . The first cry of misery— Would to God I had never been born. “ This is the idea when Job curses his day, and wishes it blotted... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 3:16

Hidden; undiscerned and unregarded. Untimely birth; born before the due time, and therefore extinct. I had not been, to wit, in the land of the living, of which he here speaketh. As infants which never saw light; being stifled and dead before they were born. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Job 3:1-26

NotesJob 3:5. “Let the blackness of the day terrify it.” Margin, “Let them terrify it as those who have a bitter day” The expression כִּמרִירֵי־יוֹם (chimrire-yom) gives rise to two classes of interpretations, according as the initial letter is regarded as a part of the noun, or as a particle. In the former case, it is best rendered “obscurations, or darkenings of the day:” from כָמַר (chamar), an unused root, signifying “to be dark, or blackened, as with heat.” So GESENIUS, who thinks the... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Job 3:1-26

Chapter 3And finally Job spoke up. Job begins to curse the day of his birth.Job opened his mouth, and he cursed his day ( Job 3:1 ).Notice he didn't curse God; just the day in which he was born.Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a boy that is conceived. Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Job 3:1-26

Job 3:1 . After this opened Job his mouth. The Masoretic Jews, as well as our modern divines, seem agreed that Job now began the drama, and spake in poetic effusions of verse. They say the same of the prophets; and our infidels call the prophets all poets. The psalms we know have a poetic character, and mostly run in metaboles. But where shall we find in the prophetic writings, with the exception of certain passages, any thing analogous to ancient poësy? We have Greek poetry of various... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 3:1-26

Job 3:1-26After this opened Job his month, and cursed his day.The peril of impulsive speechIn regard to this chapter, containing the first speech of Job, we may remark that it is impossible to approve the spirit which it exhibits, or to believe that it was acceptable to God. It laid the foundation for the reflections--many of them exceedingly just--in the following chapters, and led his friends to doubt whether such a man could be truly pious. The spirit which is manifested in this chapter is... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 3:16

Job 3:16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants [which] never saw light. Ver. 16. Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been ] As an abortive or miscarrying embryo that falleth from the mother, as untimely fruit falleth off from the tree. See Revelation 6:13 . Hidden it is called, because cast aside as an unsightly spectacle, that cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name is covered with darkness, Ecclesiastes 6:4 . Job could have wished some way or... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Job 3:16

an hidden: Psalms 58:8, 1 Corinthians 15:8 Reciprocal: Numbers 12:12 - of whom Job 3:20 - light Job 33:28 - see Ecclesiastes 6:3 - that an Jeremiah 20:17 - he slew read more