Hosea 2:6; Isaiah 40:27; Job 12:14; Job 19:8; Lamentations 3:7; Lamentations 3:9; Psalms 31:8
Why is light given “to a man uhose way is hid?” That is, who does not know what way to take, and who sees no escape from the misery that surrounds...
[Why is light given] to a man whose way is (o) hid, and whom God hath hedged in? (o) That sees not how to come out of his miseries, because he does...
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...
Why... ? Figure of speech Ellipsis. App-6. supplies the sentence from v- 20; but it may be repeated from Job 3:22 , "the grave", regarding verse...
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in? To a man whose way is hid - Who knows not what is before him in either w...
Why is light given to a man, &c.— There is nothing for why is light given, in the original. Houbigant supposes it repeated from the 20th vers...
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in? Whose way is hid. The picture of Job is drawn from a wanderer who...
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...
Whose way is hid ] in perplexity and doubt.
Hedged in. — The same expression was used in an opposite sense in Job 1:10 .
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...
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid ,.... Some of the Jewish writers connect this with Job 3:22 , thus; "who rejoice [and] are glad when t...
Job 3:23 [Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in? Ver. 23. Why is light given to a man whose way is hid? ]...
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid? Hid from him; who knows not his way, that is, which way to turn himself, what course to take to obtai...
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...
Why is light given? these words are conveniently supplied out of Job 1:20 , where they are, all the following words hitherto being joined in con...
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 3:23 I. We have in the text a great certainty light is given. The light within the soul falls from other worlds, from unseen, unrealised heig...
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...
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid? The light given-the way hidden How immediately this question speaks to us! How it seems to descri...
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
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, the light of life continued to a man as helpless and forsaken as Job, and whom God hath hedged in, so...
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...
Hid — From him; who knows not his way, which way to turn himself, what course to take to comfort himself in his miseries. Hedged in — Whom God hath...
23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?