“ Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck? ”
Why did the knees prevent me? - That is, the lap of the nurse or of the mother, probably the latter. The sense is, that if he had not been delicately and tenderly nursed, he would have died at on...
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...
the knees [of the mother]. Figure of speech Ellipsis. App-6. prevent . come before, so as to meet.
Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck? Why did the knees prevent me? - Why was I dandled on the knees? Why was I nourished by the breasts? In either of the above cases I...
Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck? Why did the knees prevent me? - old English for anticipate my wants. The reference is to the solemn recognition of a newbor...
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...
Prevent — i.e. , “Why was I nursed with care instead of being allowed to fall to the ground and be killed?”
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...
(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...
Why did the knees prevent me ?.... Not of the mother, as Jarchi, but of the midwife, who received him into her lap, and nourished and cherished him, washed him with water, salted, and swaddled him;...
Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck? Ver. 12. Why did the knees prevent me? ] Why did the too officious midwife lay me on her lap, and not let me alone to perish by...
Why died I not from the womb? It would surely have been far better, and much happier for me, had I either expired in the womb where I received my life, or it had been taken from me the very moment...
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's Complaint of Life. B. C. 1520. 11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not...
Why did the knees prevent me? why did the midwife or nurse receive me, and lay me upon her knees, and did not suffer me to fall upon the bare ground, and there to lie, in a neglected and forlorn co...
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...
Job Longs for Death
Ezekiel 16:4 ; Ezekiel 16:5 ; Genesis 30:3 ; Genesis 50:23 ; Isaiah 66:12
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...
The knees — Why did the midwife or nurse receive and lay me upon her knees, and not suffer me to fall upon the bare ground, 'till death had taken me out of this miserable world, into which their cr...