Job 3:8 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning. ”

Job 3:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Let them curse it who curse the day - This entire verse is exceedingly difficult, and many different expositions have been given of it. It seems evident that it refers to some well-known class of...
Job 3:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Let them curse it that curse the day, who are (f) ready to raise up their mourning. (f) Who curse the day of their birth, let them lay that curse on this night.
Job 3:8 - 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 3:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

their mourning . a dragon. Referring probably to what the constellation signified.
Job 3:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning. Let them curse it that curse the day - This translation is scarcely intelligible. I have waded through a multitude of i...
Job 3:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning— Houbigant renders it, May those curse it, who dread the day, who are ready to rouze the Leviathan. The word כבה kabah rendered curse,...
Job 3:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning. Them ... that curse the day. If mourning be the right rendering in the latter clause of this verse; these words...
Job 3:8 - 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 3:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

That curse the day — i.e., Let those who proclaim days unlucky or accursed curse that day as pre-eminently so; or let them recollect that day as a standard or sample of cursing. “Let it be as curse...
Job 3:8 - 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 3:8 - 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 3:8 - 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 3:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(8) Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning. (9) Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the daw...
Job 3:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Let them curse it that curse the day ,.... Their own day, either their birthday, or any day on which evil befalls them; and now such as are used to this, Job would have them, while they were cursing...
Job 3:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning. Ver. 8. Let them curse it, that curse the day ] As those atri et tetri Atlantes (before spoken of) curse the risin...
Job 3:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Let them curse it that curse the day That is, their birth-day: when their afflictions move them to curse their own birth-day, let them remember mine also, and bestow some curses upon it; who are r...
Job 3:8 - 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 3:8 - 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 3:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

That curse the day, i.e. their day, to wit, their birthday; for the pronoun is here omitted for the metre's sake; for this and the following Chapter s are written in verse, as all grant. So the sen...
Job 3:8 - 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 3:8 - 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 3:8 - 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 3:8 - 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 3:8 - 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 3:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Chronicles 35:25 ; Amos 5:16 ; Jeremiah 9:17 ; Jeremiah 9:18 ; Job 41:1 ; Job 41:10 ; Mark 5:38 ; Matthew 11:17
Job 3:8 - 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 3:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The day — Their birth — day: when their afflictions move them to curse their own birth — day, let them remember mine also, and bestow some curses upon it. Mourning — Who are full of sorrow, and alw...

Job 3:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 3:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Job 3:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 3:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Job 3:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 3:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Job 3:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 3:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 3:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Job 3:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 3:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Job 3:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 3:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 3:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 3:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 3:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 3:8 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 3:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 3:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 3:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 3:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 3:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

Job 3:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 3:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 3:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 3:8 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Job 3:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes