Job 3:24 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For my sighing cometh before I eat,f and my roarings are poured out like the waters. ”

Job 3:24 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For my sighing cometh before I eat - Margin, “My meat.” Dr. Good renders this,” Behold! my sighing takes the place of my daily food, and refers to Psalms 42:3 , as an illustration: My tears a...
Job 3:24 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Job 3:24 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

I eat . my food.
Job 3:24 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. For my sighing cometh - Some think that this refers to the ulcerated state of Job's body, mouth, hands, etc. He lon...
Job 3:24 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

For my sighing cometh before I eat— My groaning cometh like my daily bread. Heath. In presence of my meat, or at my meals, says Peters. And my roarings are poured out like the waters; i.e....
Job 3:24 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. My sighing cometh before I eat - i:e., prevents my eating. Before I begin to eat, my sighs interrupt me, so...
Job 3:24 - 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...
Job 3:24 - 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...
Job 3:24 - 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,...
Job 3:24 - 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...
Job 3:24 - 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...
Job 3:24 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For my sighing cometh before I eat ,.... Or, "before my bread", or "food" g; before he sat down to eat, or had tasted of his food, there were nothing but sighing and sobbing, so that he had no appet...
Job 3:24 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. Ver. 24. For my sighing cometh before I eat ] It cometh unsent for, as evil weather useth to do, and most unseas...
Job 3:24 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

For my sighing cometh before I eat Hebrew, before the face of my bread. Instead of enjoying the satisfaction of being refreshed with the common necessaries that are afforded us, and taking any pl...
Job 3:24 - 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...
Job 3:24 - 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...
Job 3:24 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Before I eat, Heb. before the face of my bread , i.e. either when I am going to eat, or rather, all the time whilst I am eating, (for so this phrase is used Psalms 72:5 , before the face of th...
Job 3:24 - 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...
Job 3:24 - 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...
Job 3:24 - 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...
Job 3:24 - 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...
Job 3:24 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job Longs for Death
Job 3:24 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 59:11 ; Job 7:19 ; Lamentations 3:8 ; Psalms 102:9 ; Psalms 22:1 ; Psalms 22:2 ; Psalms 32:3 ; Psalms 38:8 ; Psalms 80:5
Job 3:24 - 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...
Job 3:24 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Before, &c. — Heb. before the face of my bread, all the time I am eating, I fall into sighing and weeping, because I am obliged to eat, and to support this wretched life, and because of my unin...

Job 3:24 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 3:24 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 3:24 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Job 3:24 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 3:24 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Job 3:24 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 3:24 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 3:24 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 3:24 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Job 3:24 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 3:24 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 3:24 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 3:24 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 3:24 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 3:24 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 3:24 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 3:24 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 3:24 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 3:24 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 3:24 - The Biblical Illustrator

Job 3:24 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 3:24 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 3:24 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 3:24 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Job 3:24 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes