Job 3:7 KJV,ASV

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Job 3:1-26

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 caused a stronger, gradual build-up of bitter distress in the heart of Job, so that eventually the thoughts of his heart broke out in words of painful complaint. WISHING HE HAD NEVER BEEN BORN (vv.1-10) Job did not even now charge God foolishly, but he did curse the day of his birth. This was not directly blaming God, but however little he realised... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Job 3:1-26

THEME AND OUTLINE The theme of Job seems to be the meaning and object of evil and suffering under the government of a holy, wise and merciful God, and may be outlined thus: The Prologue (Job 1-2, in prose) The Dialogue (Job 3-31, in poetry) The Words of Elihu (Job 32-37, in poetry) The Words of the Almighty (Job 38-41, in poetry) The Response of (Job 42:1-6 , in poetry) The Epilogue (Job 42:7-17 , in prose) THE KEY TO THE BOOK The key to the book is found in the first chapter, which, after... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Job 3:1-26

The Trial of Job Job 3:0 Job has made two speeches up to this point Both of them admirable more than admirable, touching a point to which imagination can hardly ascend in its moral sublimity: "Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, and said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord" (Job 1:20 , Job 1:21 .) Mark in how... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Job 3:1-7

(1) ¶ After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. (2) And Job spake, and said, (3) Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived. (4) Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. (5) Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. (6) As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Job 3:7

Praise, by the appearance of the stars, chap. xxxviii. 7. (Calmet) read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Job 3:1-10

1-10 For seven days Job's friends sat by him in silence, without offering consolidation: at the same time Satan assaulted his mind to shake his confidence, and to fill him with hard thoughts of God. The permission seems to have extended to this, as well as to torturing the body. Job was an especial type of Christ, whose inward sufferings, both in the garden and on the cross, were the most dreadful; and arose in a great degree from the assaults of Satan in that hour of darkness. These inward... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Job 3:1-10

Job Curses the day of His Birth. Up till now Job had suppressed all thoughts of rebellion against God, every notion of dissatisfaction and impatience with the ways of Jehovah. But now he gives evidence of weakness. v. 1. After this opened Job his mouth, in the formal manner, with deliberation and gravity, after the custom of the ancient sages, and cursed his day, namely, the day of his birth. v. 2. And Job spake and said, in a wild and bold outburst, which showed that he was impatient with... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Job 3:1-26

FIRST CHIEF DIVISION OF THE POEMTHE ENTANGLEMENT—OR THE CONTROVERSIAL DISCOURSES OF JOB AND HIS FRIENDSJob 3-28The Outbreak of Job’s Despair as the Theme and Immediate Occasion of the ColloquyJob 3:0a. Job curses his existenceJob 3:1-101 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. 2And Job spake, and said,3 Let the day perish wherein I was born,and the night in which it was said, There is a man-child conceived!4 Let that day be darkness;let not God regard it from... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Job 3:1-26

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 25:2 ; Naamah is Arabia. The group of spectators, gathered round Job’s mound, reverently make way for them. Job opens his mouth in a curse. But it was not, as Satan had expected, against God. The Hebrew word is different from that used in Job 2:9 . He does not curse God, but the day of his birth, and asks that his stripped and suffering existence may... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Job 3:1-26

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 good, and they had helped him. It is always better to tell out the dark questionings of the heart than to brood over them. This lamentation of Job is of the nature of a cry for escape, rather than a description of the oppressing sorrows. In it there are three movements. The first consists of a terrible cursing of the day of his birth and the night... read more