“ There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. ”
There the prisoners rest together - Herder translates this, “There the prisoners rejoice in their freedom.” The Septuagint strangely enough, “There they of old ( ὁ αἰώνιοι hoi aiōnioi )...
[There] the (m) prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. (m) All they who sustain any kind of calamity and misery in this world: which he speaks after the judgment of the f...
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...
oppressor . taskmaster.
There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. The prisoners rest together - Those who were slaves, feeling all the troubles, and scarcely tasting any of the pleasures...
There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. There the prisoners rest - from their chains. Voice of the oppressor - driving them with threats to task work...
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...
The oppressor. — As this is the word rendered taskmaster in Exodus, some have thought there may be an allusion to that history here.
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...
[There] the prisoners rest together ,.... "Are at ease", as Mr. Broughton renders the words; such who while they lived were in prison for debt, or were condemned to the galleys, to lead a miserable...
Job 3:18 [There] the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. Ver. 18. There the prisoners rest together ] Or alike, as do their cruel creditors and hard taskmasters. T...
There the prisoners rest together That is, one as well as another; they who were lately deprived of their liberty, kept in the strongest chains and closest prisons, and condemned to the most hard a...
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...
The prisoners rest together, i.e. one as well as another; they who were kept in the strongest chains and closest prisons, and condemned to the most hard and miserable slavery, rest as well as those...
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
Exodus 5:15-19 ; Exodus 5:6-8 ; Isaiah 14:3 ; Isaiah 14:4 ; Job 39:7 ; Judges 4:3
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...
The oppressor — Or, taskmaster, who urges and forces them to work by cruel threatenings and stripes. Job meddles not here with their eternal state after death, of which he speaks hereafter, but onl...