Job 3:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light. ”

• Job 3:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Or as an hidden untimely birth - As an abortion which is hid, or concealed; that is, which is soon removed from the sight. So the Psalmist, Psalms 58:8 : As a snail which melteth, let thom di...

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• Job 3:16 - 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...

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• Job 3:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light. Or as a hidden untimely birth - An early miscarriage, which was scarcely perceptible by the parent herself; and in t...

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• Job 3:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light. Untimely birth ( Psalms 58:8 ) - preferable to the life of the restless miser ( Ecclesiastes 6:3-5 ).

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• Job 3:16 - 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...

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• Job 3:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Untimely birth. — Another condition which would have relieved him from the experience of suffering.

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• Job 3:16 - 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...

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• Job 3:16 - 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,...

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• Job 3:16 - 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...

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• Job 3:16 - 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...

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• Job 3:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Or as an hidden untimely birth ,.... Or "hid, as one born out of time", as Mr. Broughton reads it; the Septuagint use the same word as the apostle does, when he says the like of himself, 1 Corinthi...

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• Job 3:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants [which] never saw light. Ver. 16. Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been ] As an abortive or miscarrying embryo that falleth from t...

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• Job 3:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Or with princes that had gold , &c. My repose and security from worldly anxieties would have been the same with that of those princes who were once celebrated for their wealth, and whose birth e...

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• Job 3:16 - 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...

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• Job 3:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Job's Complaint of Life. B. C. 1520.       11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not...

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• Job 3:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Hidden; undiscerned and unregarded. Untimely birth; born before the due time, and therefore extinct. I had not been, to wit, in the land of the living, of which he here speaketh. As infants wh...

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• Job 3:16 - 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...

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• Job 3:16 - 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...

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• Job 3:16 - 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...

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• Job 3:16 - 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...

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• Job 3:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Job Longs for Death

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• Job 3:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 15:8 ; Psalms 58:8

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• Job 3:16 - 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...

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• Job 3:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Hidden — Undiscerned and unregarded. Born before the due time. Been — In the land of the living.

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