“ There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the wearyd be at rest. ”
There the wicked cease - from “troubling.” In the grave - where kings and princes and infants lie. This verse is often applied to heaven, and the language is such as will express the condition of...
There the wicked (l) cease [from] troubling; and there the weary be at rest. (l) That is, by death the cruelty of the tyrants has ceased.
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...
wicked . lawless agitators. Hebrew. rasha'. App-44. weary . worn out [of strength].
There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. There the wicked cease - In the grave the oppressors of men cease from irritating, harassing, and distressing their fellow cre...
The weary be at rest— The Hebrew here כח יגיעי yegiiai koach signifies, The toils of power; and these toils of the great are put in opposition to those of the slave, the meanest condition. The...
There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. The wicked - originally meaning those ever restless, full desires ( Isaiah 57:20-21 ). Weary - literally, those whos...
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...
There — i.e., in the grave, the place indicated, but not distinctly expressed.
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...
THE BETTER WORLD ‘There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.’ Job 3:17 This text speaks to us over nearly four thousand years. Job lived in days when the light of...
There the wicked cease [from] troubling ,.... At death, and in the grave; such who have been like the troubled sea, that cannot rest, have always been either devising or doing mischief while living,...
There the wicked cease [from] troubling; and there the weary be at rest. Ver. 17. There the wicked cease from troubling ] Here they are restless, as being acted and agitated by the devil, who bein...
There the wicked cease from troubling In the grave the great oppressors and troublers of the world cease from their vexatious rapines and murders; and there the weary be at rest Those who were he...
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...
There, i.e. in the grave, which though not expressed, yet is clearly implied in the foregoing verses. The wicked cease from troubling; the great oppressors and troublers of the world cease from a...
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 3:17 This text speaks to us over nearly four thousand years. Job lived in days when the light of truth was dim; the Sun of righteousness had not yet risen above the horizon; Jesus had not yet...
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
2 Peter 2:8 ; 2 Thessalonians 1:6 ; 2 Thessalonians 1:7 ; Hebrews 4:11 ; Hebrews 4:9 ; Isaiah 57:1 ; Isaiah 57:2 ; Job 14:13 ; Luke 12:4 ; Matthew 10:28 ; Psalms 55:5-8 ; Revelation 14:13...
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...
There — In the grave. The wicked — The great oppressors and troublers of the world cease from their vexations, rapins and murders. Weary — Those who were here molested and tired out with their tyra...