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

“ Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived. ”

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

Let the day perish - “ Perish the day! O that there had never been such a day! Let it be blotted from the memory of man! There is something singularly bold, sublime, and “wild” in this exclamation...
Job 3:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Let the day (c) perish wherein I was born, and the night [in which] it was said, There is a man child conceived. (c) Men should not be weary of their life and curse it, because of the infinities tha...
Job 3:3 - 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...
Job 3:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

and . or. He knew not which it was. Compare Judges 11:31 . man. Hebrew. geber. App-14.
Job 3:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived. There is a man-child conceived - The word הרה harah signifies to conceive; yet here, it se...
Job 3:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And the night in which it was said, &c.— And the night which said, See, a man-child is born; Heath: who observes from Schultens, that the bearing of a son was a matter of great consequence am...
Job 3:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived. The night in which - rather, 'the night which said.' The words in italics are not in...
Job 3:3 - 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 3:3 - 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 3:3 - 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 3:3 - 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 3:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(1) В¶ After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. (2) And Job spake, and said, (3) Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived....
Job 3:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Let the day perish wherein I was born ,.... Here begins Job's form of cursing his day, and which explains what is meant by it; and it may be understood either of the identical day of his birth, and...
Job 3:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night [in which] it was said, There is a man child conceived. Ver. 3. Let the day perish wherein I was born ] He curseth his birthday, which the Gree...
Job 3:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Here the metrical part of this book begins, which in the original Hebrew is broken into short verses, and is very beautiful, thus: שׂאבד יום אולד בו Jobad jom ivaled bo, והלילה אמר הרה גבר Vehalai...
Job 3:3 - 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 3:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job Curses His Day. B. C. 1520. 1 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. ...
Job 3:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Let the remembrance of that day be utterly lost; yea, I heartily wish that it had never been. Such wishes are apparently foolish and impatient, and yet have been sometimes forced from wise and good m...
Job 3:3 - 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 3:3 - 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 3:3 - 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 3:3 - 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 3:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job Curses the day of His Birth. Up till now Job had suppressed all thoughts of rebellion against God, every notion of dissatisfaction and impatience with the ways of Jehovah. But now he gives ev...
Job 3:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 15:10 ; Jeremiah 20:14 ; Jeremiah 20:15 ; Job 10:18 ; Job 10:19
Job 3:3 - 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 3:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Let the day — Let the remembrance of that day be utterly lost.

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

Job 3:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

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

Job 3:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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

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

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

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

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

Job 3:3 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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

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

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

Job 3:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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

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

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

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

Job 3:3 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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

Job 3:3 - The Biblical Illustrator

Job 3:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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

Job 3:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 3:3 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Job 3:3 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes