Job 3:20-23 KJV,ASV

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Job 3:1-26

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 of Job beginning with verse nine where we left off in the former study and continuing through verse thirteen. 1. A helpmeet who proved a hindrance. Job's wife came unto him in verse nine of chapter two and said unto him, "Dost thou still retain thine integrity, curse God, and die." If ever there was a time that Job needed words of sympathy and of love... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Job 3:1-20

Job 3:1-Proverbs : . 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 instead one who complains bitterly that ever he was born. This cry of misery is thrice repeated, ever in deepening pathos ( Job 3:1-2 Samuel :, Job 3:11-Psalms :, Job 3:20-Ezekiel :). Job 3:1-2 Samuel : . The first cry of misery— Would to God I had never been born. “ This is the idea when Job curses his day, and wishes it blotted... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Job 3:20-26

Job 3:20-Ezekiel : . 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 death vanishes, and he reawakens to the consciousness of his actual state. In Job 3:20 f. Job generalises from his own position, to which he returns in Job 23 : he is hedged in like a captive beast. His sighs have become his daily meat ( mg. “ like my meat,” cf. Psalms 42:3), and his roarings resemble an overflowing stream. “... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 3:20

Heb. Wherefore (for what cause, or use, or good) doth he (i.e. God, though he forbear to name him, out of that holy fear and reverence which still he retained towards him) give light? either the light of the sun, which the living only behold, Ecclesiastes 6:5; Ecclesiastes 7:11; or the light of life, as may seem both by the next words, and by comparing Psalms 56:13, and because death is off set forth by the name of darkness, as life by the name of light. These are strong expostulations with... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 3:21

i.e. Desire and pray for it with as much earnestness as men dig for treasure. But it is observable that Job durst not lay violent hands upon himself, nor do any thing to hasten or procure his death; but notwithstanding all his miseries and complaints, he was contented to wait all the days of his appointed time, till his change came, Job 14:14. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 3:23

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 construction and sense with them. Whose way is hid, to wit, from him who knows not his way, i.e. which way to turn himself, what course to take to comfort himself in his miseries, or to get out of them; what method to use to please and reconcile that God who is so angry with him, seeing his sincere and exact piety, to which God is witness, doth not satisfy... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Job 3:1-26

NotesJob 3:5. “Let the blackness of the day terrify it.” Margin, “Let them terrify it as those who have a bitter day” The expression כִּמרִירֵי־יוֹם (chimrire-yom) gives rise to two classes of interpretations, according as the initial letter is regarded as a part of the noun, or as a particle. In the former case, it is best rendered “obscurations, or darkenings of the day:” from כָמַר (chamar), an unused root, signifying “to be dark, or blackened, as with heat.” So GESENIUS, who thinks the... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Job 3:23

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 heights beyond the soul. "The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord." Those strange, perceptive intuitions which pry and penetrate into metaphysical subtleties, those frequently even unhallowed inquisitivenesses which question all things and sometimes, it may be, too daringly whence are they? Yes, "the light is given." II. We have in the text a great... read more

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - Job 3:23

The Sorrowful Man's Question October 8, 1882 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892) "Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?" Job 3:23 . I am very thankful that so many of you are glad and happy. There is none too much joy in the world, and the more that any of us can create, the better. It should be a part of our happiness, and a man part of it, to try to make other people glad. "Comfort ye, comfort ye my people," is a commission which many of us ought to feel is... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Job 3:1-26

Chapter 3And finally Job spoke up. Job begins to curse the day of his birth.Job opened his mouth, and he cursed his day ( Job 3:1 ).Notice he didn't curse God; just the day in which he was born.Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a boy that is conceived. Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the... read more

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Job 3:1-26

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Job 3:1-20

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Job 3:20-26

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 3:20

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 3:21

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 3:23

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Job 3:1-26

Sermon Bible Commentary - Job 3:23

Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - Job 3:23

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Job 3:1-26

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