I eat. my food.
For my sighing cometh before I eat - Margin, “My meat.” Dr. Good renders this,” Behold! my sighing takes the place of my daily food, and refers t...
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...
For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. For my sighing cometh - Some think that this refers to the ulcera...
For my sighing cometh before I eat— My groaning cometh like my daily bread. Heath. In presence of my meat, or at my meals, says Peters. And...
For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. My sighing cometh before I eat - i:e., prevents my eating...
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...
Translate, 'For my sighings are instead of my eating, and my groans are poured out like drink': cp. Psalms 42:3 . 25, 26. The verbs should all be...
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...
For my sighing cometh before I eat ,.... Or, "before my bread", or "food" g; before he sat down to eat, or had tasted of his food, there were nothin...
For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. Ver. 24. For my sighing cometh before I eat ] It cometh unsent...
For my sighing cometh before I eat Hebrew, before the face of my bread. Instead of enjoying the satisfaction of being refreshed with the common n...
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...
Before I eat, Heb. before the face of my bread , i.e. either when I am going to eat, or rather, all the time whilst I am eating, (for so this phra...
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
For my sighing cometh before I eat, instead of eating and enjoying his food he is constrained to groan in his misery, and my roarings are poured out...
Isaiah 59:11 ; Job 7:19 ; Lamentations 3:8 ; Psalms 102:9 ; Psalms 22:1 ; Psalms 22:2 ; Psalms 32:3 ; Psalms 38:8 ; Psalms 80:5
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...
Before, &c. — Heb. before the face of my bread, all the time I am eating, I fall into sighing and weeping, because I am obliged to eat, and to...
24 For my sighing cometh before I eat,f and my roarings are poured out like the waters.