Job 3:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. ”

• Job 3:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Let that day be darkness - Let it not be day; or, O, that it had not been day, that the sun had not risen, and that it had been night. Let not God regard it from above - The word rendered her...

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• Job 3:4 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Let that day be darkness; let not God (d) regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. (d) Let it be put out of the number of days, and let it not have the sight of the sun to separate...

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• Job 3:4 - 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...

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• Job 3:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  darkness. Hebrew. hashak. GOD. Hebrew Eloah. See App-4.

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• Job 3:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. Let that day be darkness - The meaning is exactly the same with our expression, "Let it be blotted out...

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• Job 3:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. Let not God regard it - rather, more poetically, Seek it out х daarash ( H1875 )]. 'Let no...

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• Job 3:4 - 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 3:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Regard. — Literally, require, ask for, and so manifest care about. (Comp. Deuteronomy 11:12 .)

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• Job 3:4 - 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 3:4 - 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 3:4 - 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 3:4 - 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....

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• Job 3:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Let that day be darkness ,.... Not only dark, but darkness itself, extremely dark; and which is to be understood not figuratively of the darkness of affliction and calamity; this Job would not wish...

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• Job 3:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. Ver. 4. Let that day be darkness ] Thick darkness, as that once was in Egypt, Exodus 10:28 . A day...

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• Job 3:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Let that day be darkness I wish the sun had never risen on that day; or, which is the same thing, that it had never been: and whensoever that day returns, instead of the cheering and refreshing bea...

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• Job 3:4 - 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 3:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Job Curses His Day. B. C. 1520.       1 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.  ...

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• Job 3:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  I wish the sun had never risen upon that day to make it day, or, which is all one, that it had never been; and whensoever that day returns, I wish it may be black, and gloomy, and uncomfortable, and...

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• Job 3:4 - 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 3:4 - 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 3:4 - 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 3:4 - 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 3:4 - 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...

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• Job 3:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Acts 27:20 ; Amos 5:18 ; Deuteronomy 11:12 ; Exodus 10:22 ; Exodus 10:23 ; Joel 2:2 ; Matthew 27:45 ; Revelation 16:10

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• Job 3:4 - 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 3:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Darkness — I wish the sun had never risen upon that day, or, which is all one, that it had never been; and whensoever that day returns, I wish it may be black, and gloomy, and uncomfortable. Regard...

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