“ After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. ”
After this - Dr. Good renders this, “at length.” It means after the long silence of his friends, and after he saw that there was no prospect of relief or of consolation. Opened Job his mouth -...
After this opened (a) Job his mouth, and (b) cursed his day. (a) The seven days ended, ( Job 2:13 ). (b) Here Job begins to feel his great imperfection in this battle between the spirit and the fle...
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...
After this: i.e. after this long restraint. cursed. Here we have the Hebrew kalal, which was in the primitive text. See note on Job 1:5 . his day: i.e. his birthday. Compare Job 3:3 .
DISCOURSE: 453 JOB CURSES THE DAY OF HIS BIRTH Job 3:1 . After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day . IT is Worthy of observation, that the most eminent saints mentioned in the sacred...
After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. After this opened Job his mouth - After the seven days' mourning was over, there being no prospect of relief, Job is represented as thus cursing t...
Job detests the day of his birth; wishes that he had never been born, and complains that the thing which he feared is come upon him. Before Christ 1645. Job 3:1 . After this opened Job h...
After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. Opened Job his mouth. The Orientals speaks seldom, and then sententiously. Hence, this formula, expressing deliberation and gravity ( Psal...
His day ] the day of his birth. It was thought that the days of the year had an existence of their own, so that any given day would come round again in its turn. Hence Job is not cursing a day which...
III. (1) After this opened Job his mouth. — There is a striking similarity between this chapter and Jeremiah 20:14-18 , so much so that one must be borrowed from the other; the question is, whi...
VI. THE CRY FROM THE DEPTH Job 3:1-26 Job SPEAKS WHILE the friends of Job sat beside him that dreary week of silence, each of them was meditating in his own way the sudden calamities which ha...
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,...
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...
CONTENTS We have in this chapter, the complaints of Jobadiah The whole, from beginning to end, is an unceasing lamentation. The afflicted mourner dwells much upon the miseries of life, and the happi...
After this opened Job his mouth ,.... order to speak, and began to speak of his troubles and afflictions, and the sense he had of them; for though, this phrase may sometimes signify to speak aloud,...
After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. Ver. 1. After this ] After so long silence of his friends, and to provoke them to speak, who haply waited for some words from him first, as kno...
After this Job opened his mouth The days of mourning being now over, and no hopes appearing of Job's amendment, but his afflictions rather increasing, he bursts into a severe lamentation; he wishes...
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...
Job Curses His Day. B. C. 1520. 1 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. ...
JOB CHAPTER 3 Job curseth the day and services of his birth, Job 3:1-12 . The ease and honours of death, Job 3:13-19 . Life in anguish matter of complaint, Job 3:20-24 . What he feared is...
Notes Job 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 class...
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 sam...
After this opened Job his month, and cursed his day. The peril of impulsive speech In regard to this chapter, containing the first speech of Job, we may remark that it is impossible to approve...
EXPOSITION The "Historical Introduction" ended, we come upon a long colloquy, in which the several dramatis personae speak for themselves, the writer, or compiler, only prefacing each speech w...
After this opened Job his mouth, in the formal manner, with deliberation and gravity, after the custom of the ancient sages, and cursed his day, namely, the day of his birth.
Jeremiah 20:14 ; Jeremiah 20:15 ; Job 1:11 ; Job 1:22 ; Job 2:10 ; Job 2:5 ; Job 2:9 ; Job 3:3 ; Job 35:16 ; Psalms 106:33 ; Psalms 39:2 ; Psalms 39:3
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...
His day — His birth — day, in vain do some endeavour to excuse this and the following speeches of Job, who afterwards is reproved by God, and severely accuseth himself for them, Job 38:2 , Job 40...