Ecclesiastes 6:3-5; Ecclesiastes 9:10
For now should I have lain still - In this verse Job uses four expressions to describe the state in which be would have been if he had been so ha...
For now should I have (i) lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, (i) The vehemency of his afflictions made him utt...
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...
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, For now should I have lain still - In that case I had...
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, Lain ... quiet ... slept - a gradation. I shou...
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...
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...
For now should I have lain still, and been quiet ,.... Signifying, that if the above had been his case, if he had died as soon as born, or quickly a...
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, Ver. 13. For now should I have lain still and been...
For now should I have lain still, and been quiet Free from those torments of body, and that anguish of mind, which now oppress me. With kings an...
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. ...
Quiet; free from all those torments of my body and mind which now oppress me.
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 now should I have lain still and been quiet, not bothered with any of the misery which he was now suffering; I should have slept, in the untrou...
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...
13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,