Job 3:10 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes. ”

Job 3:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Because it shut not up ... - That is, because the accursed day and night did not do it. Aben Ezra supposes that God is meant here, and that the complaint of Job is that he did not close his mothe...
Job 3:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Job 3:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes. Because it shut not up the doors - Here is the reason why he curses the day and the night in which he was concei...
Job 3:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes. No JFB commentary on this verse.
Job 3:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job Curses his Day Job curses the day of his birth. He asks why he did not die at birth: why should his wretched life be prolonged? We are now confronted with a striking change in Job's frame of...
Job 3:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Job 3:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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,...
Job 3:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Job 3:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(8) Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning. (9) Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the daw...
Job 3:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother's] womb ,.... Or "of my belly" m, or "womb"; which Aben Ezra interprets of the navel, by which the infant receives its food and nourishment before it i...
Job 3:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother's] womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes. Ver. 10. Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb] Lest this curse should seem causeless, and he m...
Job 3:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Because it shut not up my mother's womb Because it did not confine me to the dark prison of the womb, but suffered me to escape from thence; nor hid sorrow from mine eyes Because it did not keep...
Job 3:10 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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 3:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job Curses His Day. B. C. 1520. 1 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. ...
Job 3:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Because it shut not up, to wit, the night or the day; to which those things are ascribed which were done by others in them, as is frequent in poetical writings, such as this is. Or, he , i.e. God;...
Job 3:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 3:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Job 3:10 - The Biblical Illustrator

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...
Job 3:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
Job 3:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job Curses the day of His Birth. Up till now Job had suppressed all thoughts of rebellion against God, every notion of dissatisfaction and impatience with the ways of Jehovah. But now he gives ev...
Job 3:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 1:5 ; Ecclesiastes 11:10 ; Ecclesiastes 6:3-5 ; Genesis 20:18 ; Genesis 29:31 ; Jeremiah 20:17 ; Job 10:1 ; Job 10:18 ; Job 10:19 ; Job 23:2 ; Job 6:2 ; Job 6:3
Job 3:10 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

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...
Job 3:10 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

It — The night or the day: to which those things are ascribed which were done by others in them, as is frequent in poetical writings. Womb — That it might never have brought me forth. Nor hid — Bec...

Job 3:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 3:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 3:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 3:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 3:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 3:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 3:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Job 3:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 3:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 3:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 3:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 3:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 3:10 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 3:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 3:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 3:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 3:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 3:10 - The Biblical Illustrator

Job 3:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 3:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 3:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 3:10 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Job 3:10 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes