Job 3:24

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Job 3:1-26

JOB'S BITTER COMPLAINT (vv.1-26) Though Job would not dare to curse God for his trouble, yet it seems that the presence of his friends only caused a stronger, gradual build-up of bitter distress in the heart of Job, so that eventually the thoughts of his heart broke out in words of painful complaint. WISHING HE HAD NEVER BEEN BORN (vv.1-10) Job did not even now charge God foolishly, but he did curse the day of his birth. This was not directly blaming God, but however little he realised... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Job 3:1-26

THEME AND OUTLINE The theme of Job seems to be the meaning and object of evil and suffering under the government of a holy, wise and merciful God, and may be outlined thus: The Prologue (Job 1-2, in prose) The Dialogue (Job 3-31, in poetry) The Words of Elihu (Job 32-37, in poetry) The Words of the Almighty (Job 38-41, in poetry) The Response of (Job 42:1-6 , in poetry) The Epilogue (Job 42:7-17 , in prose) THE KEY TO THE BOOK The key to the book is found in the first chapter, which, after... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Job 3:1-26

The Trial of Job Job 3:0 Job has made two speeches up to this point Both of them admirable more than admirable, touching a point to which imagination can hardly ascend in its moral sublimity: "Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, and said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord" (Job 1:20 , Job 1:21 .) Mark in how... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Job 3:20-26

(20) ¶ Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; (21) Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; (22) Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave? (23) Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in? (24) For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. (25) For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Job 3:24

Sigh, through difficulty of swallowing, (Pineda) or sense of misery. (Haydock) read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Job 3:20-26

20-26 Job was like a man who had lost his way, and had no prospect of escape, or hope of better times. But surely he was in an ill frame for death when so unwilling to live. Let it be our constant care to get ready for another world, and then leave it to God to order our removal thither as he thinks fit. Grace teaches us in the midst of life's greatest comforts, to be willing to die, and in the midst of its greatest crosses, to be willing to live. Job's way was hid; he knew not wherefore God... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Job 3:11-26

Job Longs for Death v. 11. Why died I not from the womb, immediately after birth? Why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? v. 12. Why did the knees prevent me? "Prevent" is here used in the old sense of anticipate, be ready for, said of the father, who took the new-born child on his lap, joyfully acknowledging his son. Or why the breasts that I should suck? Said of the readiness, of the anxious longing, of the mother to nurse her child, to give him the food needed in... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Job 3:1-26

FIRST CHIEF DIVISION OF THE POEMTHE ENTANGLEMENT—OR THE CONTROVERSIAL DISCOURSES OF JOB AND HIS FRIENDSJob 3-28The Outbreak of Job’s Despair as the Theme and Immediate Occasion of the ColloquyJob 3:0a. Job curses his existenceJob 3:1-101 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. 2And Job spake, and said,3 Let the day perish wherein I was born,and the night in which it was said, There is a man-child conceived!4 Let that day be darkness;let not God regard it from... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Job 3:1-26

Is Life Worth Living? Job 3:1-26 In the closing paragraphs of the previous chapter three friends arrive. Teman is Edom; for Shuah see Genesis 25:2 ; Naamah is Arabia. The group of spectators, gathered round Job’s mound, reverently make way for them. Job opens his mouth in a curse. But it was not, as Satan had expected, against God. The Hebrew word is different from that used in Job 2:9 . He does not curse God, but the day of his birth, and asks that his stripped and suffering existence may... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

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

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