Job 3:26 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came. ”

• Job 3:26 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  I was not in safety - That is, I have, or I had no peace. שׁלה shâlâh Septuagint, οὔτε εἰρήνευσα oute eirēneusa - “I had no peace.” The sense is, that his mind had been disturb...

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• Job 3:26 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; (q) yet trouble came. (q) The fear of troubles that would ensue, caused my prosperity to seem to me as nothing, and yet I am not exempte...

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• Job 3:26 - 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...

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• Job 3:26 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came. I was not in safety - If this verse be read interrogatively, it will give a good and easy sense: Was I not in safety? H...

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• Job 3:26 - 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....

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• Job 3:26 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came. I was not in safety ... yet trouble came - referring, not to his former state but to the beginning of his troub...

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• Job 3:26 - 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 3:26 - 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 3:26 - 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 3:26 - 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 3:26 - 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 3:26 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  I was not in safety ,.... This cannot refer to the time of his prosperity; for he certainly then was in safety, God having set an hedge about him, so that none of his enemies, nor even Satan himself...

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• Job 3:26 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came. Ver. 26. I was not in safety ] i.e. I counted not myself simply the safer and happier man, because of creature com...

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• Job 3:26 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet Three expressions denoting the same thing, which was also signified in the verse immediately preceding, namely, that even in his prosper...

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• Job 3:26 - 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 3:26 - 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 3:26 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The three expressions note the same thing, which also was signified in the next foregoing verse, to wit, that even in his prosperous days he never was secure or at rest from the torment of fear and a...

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• Job 3:26 - 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 3:26 - 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 3:26 - 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 3:26 - 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 3:26 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Job Longs for Death

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• Job 3:26 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Job 27:9 ; Psalms 143:11

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• Job 3:26 - 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 3:26 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Quiet — I did not misbehave myself in prosperity, abusing it by presumption, and security, but I lived circumspectly, walking humbly with God, and working out my salvation with fear and trembling....

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