“ Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in? ”
Why is light given “to a man uhose way is hid?” That is, who does not know what way to take, and who sees no escape from the misery that surrounds him. Whom God hath hedged in - See Notes, Job...
[Why is light given] to a man whose way is (o) hid, and whom God hath hedged in? (o) That sees not how to come out of his miseries, because he does not depend on God's providence.
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...
Why... ? Figure of speech Ellipsis. App-6. supplies the sentence from v- 20; but it may be repeated from Job 3:22 , "the grave", regarding verses: Job 21:22 as. parenthesis. GOD. Hebrew Elo...
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in? To a man whose way is hid - Who knows not what is before him in either world, but is full of fears and trembling concernin...
Why is light given to a man, &c.— There is nothing for why is light given, in the original. Houbigant supposes it repeated from the 20th verse; and he renders the present, Why, to that man,...
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in? Whose way is hid. The picture of Job is drawn from a wanderer who has lost his way, and who is hedged in, so as to h...
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...
Hedged in. — The same expression was used in an opposite sense in Job 1:10 .
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...
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid ,.... Some of the Jewish writers connect this with Job 3:22 , thus; "who rejoice [and] are glad when they find a grave for a man", c. but it should be o...
Job 3:23 [Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in? Ver. 23. Why is light given to a man whose way is hid? ] i.e. Why is the light of life continued to him wh...
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid? Hid from him; who knows not his way, that is, which way to turn himself, what course to take to obtain comfort in his miseries, or to get out of them....
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...
Why is light given? these words are conveniently supplied out of Job 1:20 , where they are, all the following words hitherto being joined in construction and sense with them. Whose way is hid,...
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 3:23 I. We have in the text a great certainty light is given. The light within the soul falls from other worlds, from unseen, unrealised heights beyond the soul. "The spirit of man is the can...
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
Hosea 2:6 ; Isaiah 40:27 ; Job 12:14 ; Job 19:8 ; Lamentations 3:7 ; Lamentations 3:9 ; Psalms 31:8
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...
Hid — From him; who knows not his way, which way to turn himself, what course to take to comfort himself in his miseries. Hedged in — Whom God hath put as it were in a prison, so that he can see no...