Wherefore... ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6.
soul. Hebrew. nephesh. App-13.
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery? - The word “light” here is used undoubtedly to denote “life.” This verse commences a new part...
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and (n) life unto the bitter [in] soul; (n) He shows that the benefits of God are not comfortable...
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...
Why does God continue life to the wretch who longs for death? Job's words again rise to a passionate intensity. The vision of the peacefulness of dea...
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; Wherefore is light given - Why is life granted to him who is i...
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; Wherefore (seeing that the dead are free from every eart...
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...
Wherefore is light given. — Comp. the connection between life and light in Psalms 36:9 and John 1:4 .
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...
(20) В¶ Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; (21) Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig fo...
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery ,.... That labours under various calamities and afflictions, as Job did, being stripped of his sub...
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter [in] soul; Ver. 20. Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery...
Wherefore is light given למה יתן, lama jitten; why doth he give, or hath he given, light , namely, the light of life, to him that is in misery,...
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...
20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; 21 Which long for death, but it cometh not; and...
Heb. Wherefore (for what cause, or use, or good) doth he (i.e. God, though he forbear to name him, out of that holy fear and reverence which stil...
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...
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery. Christian posture of the problem of evil in life This question of universal, intellectual, a...
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
Wherefore is light, namely, the light of life, given to him that is in misery and life unto the bitter in soul, why should God continue them in thi...
1 Samuel 1:10 ; 2 Kings 4:27 ; Jeremiah 20:18 ; Job 3:16 ; Job 33:28 ; Job 33:30 ; Job 6:9 ; Job 7:15 ; Job 7:16 ; Proverbs 31:6
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...
Light — The light of life. Bitter — Unto those to whom life itself is bitter and burdensome. Life is called light, because it is pleasant and servi...
20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;