“ The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master. ”
The small and the great are there - The old and the young, the high and the low. Death levels all. It shows no respect to age; it spares none because they are vigorous, young, or beautiful. This...
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...
master . masters. Hebrew, plural for emphasis.
The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master. The small and great are there - All sorts and conditions of men are equally blended in the grave, and ultimately reduced to o...
The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master. The small and great are there - on the same footing, without distinction of rank ( Proverbs 22:2 ). Servant. The sl...
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...
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 small and great are there ,.... Both as to age, and with respect to bulk and strength of body, and also to estate and dignity; children and men, or those of low and high stature, or in a mean or...
The small and great are there; and the servant [is] free from his master. Ver. 19. The small and the great are there ] In Calvary are skulls of all sizes, say the Hebrews. Stat sua cuique dies (...
The small and great are there It should rather be rendered, are equal there; persons of all qualities and conditions, whether higher or lower, are in the same circumstances. There is no distincti...
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 small and great, i.e. persons of all qualifies and conditions, whether higher or lower. Are there, in the same place and state, all those kinds of distinctions and differences being for ever...
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
Ecclesiastes 12:5 ; Ecclesiastes 12:7 ; Ecclesiastes 8:8 ; Hebrews 9:27 ; Job 30:23 ; Luke 16:22 ; Luke 16:23 ; Psalms 49:14-20 ; Psalms 49:2 ; Psalms 49:6-10
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...
Small and great — Persons of all qualities and conditions. Are there — In the same place and state, all those distinctions being forever abolished. A good reason, why those who have power should us...