John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 3:2
And Job spake, and said. Or "answered and said" F20 ויען "et respondit", Pagninus, Montanus, Schmidt, Schultens, Michaelis. , though not a word was spoken to him by his friends; he answered to his own calamity, and to their silence, as Schmidt observes; and this word is sometimes used when nothing goes before, to which the answer is, as many Jewish writers observe, as in Exodus 32:27 ; Jarchi interprets it, "he cried", and so some others F21 "Clamavitquo", Mercerus; "nam... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 3:1-10
Long was Job's heart hot within him; and, while he was musing, the fire burned, and the more for being stifled and suppressed. At length he spoke with his tongue, but not such a good word as David spoke after a long pause: Lord, make me to know my end, Ps. 39:3, 4. Seven days the prophet Ezekiel sat down astonished with the captives, and then (probably on the sabbath day) the word of the Lord came to him, Ezek. 3:15, 16. So long Job and his friends sat thinking, but said nothing; they were... read more