Job 27:9; Psalms 143:11
I was not in safety - That is, I have, or I had no peace. שׁלה shâlâh Septuagint, οὔτε εἰρήνευσα oute eirēneusa - “I had no pe...
I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; (q) yet trouble came. (q) The fear of troubles that would ensue, caused my prosperity...
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...
I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came. I was not in safety - If this verse be read interrogatively, it will...
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...
I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came. I was not in safety ... yet trouble came - referring, not to...
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...
(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...
REFLECTIONS PONDER, my soul, over this view of Job; and behold in him, whose patience is so highly testified of by the Holy Ghost, what man is in hi...
I was not in safety ,.... This cannot refer to the time of his prosperity; for he certainly then was in safety, God having set an hedge about him, s...
I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came. Ver. 26. I was not in safety ] i.e. I counted not myself simply...
I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet Three expressions denoting the same thing, which was also signified in the verse immed...
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...
The three expressions note the same thing, which also was signified in the next foregoing verse, to wit, that even in his prosperous days he never wa...
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...
Yet trouble came. Trouble and usefulness What a heathen would have called “the blind and infamous dispensations of fortune,” Christians speak o...
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
I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quite, he was so troubled then that he had neither respite nor repose; yet trouble came, it...
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...
Quiet — I did not misbehave myself in prosperity, abusing it by presumption, and security, but I lived circumspectly, walking humbly with God, and...
26 I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.