oppressor. taskmaster.
There the prisoners rest together - Herder translates this, “There the prisoners rejoice in their freedom.” The Septuagint strangely enough, “The...
[There] the (m) prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. (m) All they who sustain any kind of calamity and misery in this...
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 instea...
There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. The prisoners rest together - Those who were slaves, feeling all the t...
There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. There the prisoners rest - from their chains. Voice of the op...
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 co...
Oppressor ] rather, 'taskmaster.' 20-26. Job asks why his wretched life should be prolonged.
The oppressor. — As this is the word rendered taskmaster in Exodus, some have thought there may be an allusion to that history here.
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 medita...
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...
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 g...
(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 fo...
[There] the prisoners rest together ,.... "Are at ease", as Mr. Broughton renders the words; such who while they lived were in prison for debt, or w...
Job 3:18 [There] the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. Ver. 18. There the prisoners rest together ] Or alike, a...
There the prisoners rest together That is, one as well as another; they who were lately deprived of their liberty, kept in the strongest chains and...
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 caus...
Job's Complaint of Life. B. C. 1520. ...
The prisoners rest together, i.e. one as well as another; they who were kept in the strongest chains and closest prisons, and condemned to the most...
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 כִּמרִ...
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 spak...
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 Jo...
EXPOSITION The "Historical Introduction" ended, we come upon a long colloquy, in which the several dramatis personae speak for themselves, the...
Job Longs for Death
There the prisoners rest together, as many as there may be; they hear not the voice of the oppressor, no taskmaster, or overseer, threatens them an...
Exodus 5:15-19 ; Exodus 5:6-8 ; Isaiah 14:3 ; Isaiah 14:4 ; Job 39:7 ; Judges 4:3
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...
The oppressor — Or, taskmaster, who urges and forces them to work by cruel threatenings and stripes. Job meddles not here with their eternal state...
18 There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.