Job 3:9 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawningc of the day: ”

• Job 3:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark - That is, be extinguished, so that it shall be total darkness - darkness not even relieved by a single star. The word here rendered “twilight” נשׁף...

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• Job 3:9 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but [have] none; neither let it (g) see the dawning of the day: (g) Let it be always night, and never see day.

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• Job 3:9 - 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 3:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  dark. Hebrew. hashak. See Job 3:4 . let it look. Figure of speech Prosopopoeia. App-6.

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• Job 3:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day: Let the stars of the twilight thereof - The stars of the twilight may...

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• Job 3:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day: Dawning of the day - literally, eyelashes of morning; х bª`ap...

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• Job 3:9 - 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 3:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  The dawning... — Literally, the eyelids of the dawn.

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• Job 3:9 - 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 3:9 - 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 3:9 - 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 3:9 - 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...

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• Job 3:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark ,.... Either of the morning or evening twilight; both may be meant, rather the latter, because of the following clause; the sense is, let not these appe...

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• Job 3:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but [have] none; neither let it see the dawning of the day: Ver. 9. Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark ] If the sta...

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• Job 3:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Let the stars of the twilight thereof , &c. That adorn the heavens with so much beauty and lustre, never be seen that night. Let it look for light, but have none Let it wait with the greatest...

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• Job 3:9 - 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 3:9 - 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 3:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Let the stars, which are the glory and beauty of the night, to render it amiable and delightful to men, be covered with thick darkness, nd that both in the evening twilight, as is here expressed,...

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• Job 3:9 - 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 3:9 - Scofield Reference Notes

  dawning Hebrew, "the eyelids of the morning." ( Job 41:18 ).

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• Job 3:9 - 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 3:9 - 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 3:9 - 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 3:9 - 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 3:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Jeremiah 13:16 ; Jeremiah 8:15 ; Job 30:26 ; Job 41:18

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• Job 3:9 - 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 3:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  The stars — Let the stars, which are the glory and beauty of the night, be covered with thick darkness, and that both in the evening twilight, when the stars begin to shine; and also in the farther...

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