Job 3:5 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Let darkness and the shadow of death stainb it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. ”

Job 3:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Let darkness and the shadow of death - The Hebrew word צלמות tsalmâveth is exceedingly musical and poetical. It is derived from צל tsêl , “a shadow,” and מות mâveth , “death;” and is...
Job 3:5 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Let darkness and the (e) shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. (e) That is, most obscure darkness, which makes them afraid of death that they...
Job 3:5 - 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 3:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

the shadow of death. Hebrew. zalmaveth . the darkness of death. stain it . pollute it. Hebrew. ga'al, to pollute; not ga'al, to redeem.
Job 3:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it - יגאלהו yigaluhu, "pollute or avenge...
Job 3:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Let darkness—stain it, &c.— Let darkness—claim it; let thick night involve it. Houbigant; who observes well, that there enters nothing of pollution into the idea of darkness.
Job 3:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. Let ... the shadow of death (deepest darkness, Isaiah 9:2 ) Stain it. T...
Job 3:5 - 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 3:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Stain. — Literally, redeem — i.e., claim as their rightful inheritance. The other meaning enters into this word, as in Isaiah 63:3 ; Malachi 1:7 . Blackness of the day — i.e., preternatu...
Job 3:5 - 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 3:5 - 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 3:5 - 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 3:5 - 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 3:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it ,.... Let there be such darkness on it as on persons when dying, or in the state of the dead; hence the sorest afflictions, and the state of man in unre...
Job 3:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. Ver. 5. Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it ] Let it be dies luctuosus...
Job 3:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Let darkness and the shadow of death Let the most dismal darkness, like that of the place of the dead, which is a land of darkness , and where the light is darkness, Job 10:21-22 ; or darknes...
Job 3:5 - 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 3:5 - 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 3:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Darkness and the shadow of death, i.e. a black and dark shadow, like that of the place of the dead, which is a land of darkness, and where the light is darkness , as Job explains this very phrase,...
Job 3:5 - 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 3:5 - 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 3:5 - 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 3:5 - 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 3:5 - 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 3:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Amos 5:8 ; Amos 8:10 ; Deuteronomy 4:11 ; Ezekiel 30:3 ; Ezekiel 34:12 ; Hebrews 12:18 ; Isaiah 9:2 ; Jeremiah 13:16 ; Jeremiah 2:6 ; Jeremiah 4:28 ; Job 10:21 ; Job 10:22 ; Job 16:16 ;...
Job 3:5 - 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 3:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Death — A black and dark shadow like that of the place of the dead, which is a land of darkness. Slain — Take away its beauty and glory. Terrify — That is, men in it. Let it be always observed as a...

Job 3:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 3:5 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Job 3:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 3:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Job 3:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 3:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Job 3:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 3:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 3:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Job 3:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 3:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Job 3:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 3:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 3:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 3:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 3:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 3:5 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 3:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 3:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 3:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 3:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 3:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

Job 3:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 3:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 3:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 3:5 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Job 3:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes