1 Kings 10:27; Isaiah 2:7; Job 22:25; Job 27:16; Numbers 22:18; Zechariah 9:3; Zephaniah 1:18
Or with princes that had gold - That is, he would have been united with the rich and the great. Is there not here too also a slight evidence of t...
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...
Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: Or with princes that had gold - Chief or mighty men, lords of the soil, or fortun...
Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: Filled their houses with silver. Some take this of the treasures which th...
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...
Perhaps an allusion to the valuables buried in ancient tombs.
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...
Or with princes that had gold ,.... A large abundance of it while they lived, but now, being dead, were no longer in the possession of it, but on a...
Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: Ver. 15. Or with princes that had gold ] Great store of it. Petrarch reporteth...
Or with princes that had gold , &c. My repose and security from worldly anxieties would have been the same with that of those princes who were o...
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. ...
No text from Poole on this verse.
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
or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver, those who heaped up countless treasures for themselves;
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...
15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: