Job 3:20 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; ”

• Job 3:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery? - The word “light” here is used undoubtedly to denote “life.” This verse commences a new part of Job’s complaint. It is that God keeps people al...

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• Job 3:20 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and (n) life unto the bitter [in] soul; (n) He shows that the benefits of God are not comfortable, unless the heart is joyful, and the conscience q...

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• Job 3:20 - 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 3:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Wherefore... ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6. soul. Hebrew. nephesh. App-13.

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• Job 3:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; Wherefore is light given - Why is life granted to him who is incapable of enjoying it, or of performing its func...

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• Job 3:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; Wherefore (seeing that the dead are free from every earthly sorrow) is light given - literally, 'giveth He...

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• Job 3:20 - 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 3:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Wherefore is light given. — Comp. the connection between life and light in Psalms 36:9 and John 1:4 .

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• Job 3:20 - 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 3:20 - 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 3:20 - 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 3:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (20) В¶ Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; (21) Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; (22) Which rejoi...

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• Job 3:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery ,.... That labours under various calamities and afflictions, as Job did, being stripped of his substance, deprived of his children, and now in great...

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• Job 3:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter [in] soul; Ver. 20. Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery ] Job hath not done yet, though he had said more t...

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• Job 3:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Wherefore is light given למה יתן, lama jitten; why doth he give, or hath he given, light , namely, the light of life, to him that is in misery, whose life is a scene of sorrow and distress, load...

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• Job 3:20 - 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 3:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;   21 Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;   22 Whic...

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• Job 3:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Heb. Wherefore (for what cause, or use, or good) doth he (i.e. God, though he forbear to name him, out of that holy fear and reverence which still he retained towards him) give light? either the...

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• Job 3:20 - 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 3:20 - 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 3:20 - 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 3:20 - 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 3:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Job Longs for Death

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• Job 3:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Samuel 1:10 ; 2 Kings 4:27 ; Jeremiah 20:18 ; Job 3:16 ; Job 33:28 ; Job 33:30 ; Job 6:9 ; Job 7:15 ; Job 7:16 ; Proverbs 31:6

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• Job 3:20 - 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 3:20 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Light — The light of life. Bitter — Unto those to whom life itself is bitter and burdensome. Life is called light, because it is pleasant and serviceable for walking and working; and this light is...

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