“ Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave? ”
Which rejoice exceedingly - Hebrew “Who rejoice upon joy or exultation” ( אל־גיל 'el - gı̂yl ), that is, with exceedingly great joy. When they can find the grave - What an expression! How s...
Why does God continue life to the wretch who longs for death? Job's words again rise to a passionate intensity. The vision of the peacefulness of death vanishes, and he reawakens to the consciousness...
grave . sepulchre. Hebrew. keber. See App-35.
Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave? Which rejoice exceedingly - Literally, They rejoice with joy, and exult when they find the grave. There is a various reading h...
Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; No JFB commentary on these verses.
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...
(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...
Which rejoice exceedingly ,.... Or, "which joy till they do skip again", as Mr. Broughton renders it, and to the same purport others d; are so elated as to skip and dance for joy: [and] are glad w...
Which rejoice exceedingly, [and] are glad, when they can find the grave? Ver. 22. Which rejoice exceedingly ] Joy till they skip again, so Broughton rendereth it. Strange that any should be so gla...
Which rejoice exceedingly, when they can find the grave To be thus impatient of life, for the sake of the trouble we meet with, is not only unnatural in itself, but ungrateful to the Giver of life,...
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...
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...
No text from Poole on this verse.
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
Daniel 1:10 ; Genesis 23:4 ; Hosea 9:1 ; Isaiah 16:10 ; Jeremiah 48:33 ; Job 10:19 ; Job 17:1 ; Job 21:32 ; Job 5:26 ; Joel 1:16 ; Proverbs 23:24 ; Psalms 43:4 ; Psalms 45:15 ; Psalms 6...
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...
Glad, &c. — To be thus impatient of life, for the sake of the trouble we meet with, is not only unnatural in itself, but ungrateful to the giver of life, and shews a sinful indulgence of our ow...