Job 3:20-23 KJV,ASV

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Job 3:1-26

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 spake in poetic effusions of verse. They say the same of the prophets; and our infidels call the prophets all poets. The psalms we know have a poetic character, and mostly run in metaboles. But where shall we find in the prophetic writings, with the exception of certain passages, any thing analogous to ancient poësy? We have Greek poetry of various... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 3:1-26

Job 3:1-26After this opened Job his month, and cursed his day.The peril of impulsive speechIn regard to this chapter, containing the first speech of Job, we may remark that it is impossible to approve the spirit which it exhibits, or to believe that it was acceptable to God. It laid the foundation for the reflections--many of them exceedingly just--in the following chapters, and led his friends to doubt whether such a man could be truly pious. The spirit which is manifested in this chapter is... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 3:20

Job 3:20Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery. Christian posture of the problem of evil in lifeThis question of universal, intellectual, and moral interest, as to the purpose of evil, is a question which has always been raised by ghastly facts in human life, parallel to Job’s. Why wert thou so visited, didst thou ask, O Job? Why but that, through thy momentary temptation to wonder and murmur, that beautiful patience and admirable piety of thine might be afterwards developed, and... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 3:23

Job 3:23Why is light given to a man whose way is hid? The light given-the way hiddenHow immediately this question speaks to us! How it seems to describe that mental and moral incongruity of which we are more or less the subjects--that feeling in which we are so often disposed to say to our Maker, Why hast Thou made me thus? This is the subject of the Book of Job--the mystery of life--the vanity of knowledge--the mysterious conflict of what man feels he is, and what he feels he might be, and... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 3:20

Job 3:20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter [in] soul; Ver. 20. Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery ] Job hath not done yet, though he had said more than enough of this matter; but for want of the oil of joy and gladness his doors move not without creaking, his lips (like rusty hinges) open not without murmuring and complaining: good, therefore, is that counsel given by David, Cease from anger, and forsake wrath; take up in time, before it... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 3:21

Job 3:21 Which long for death, but it [cometh] not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; Ver. 21. Which long for death, but it cometh not ] The bitter in soul long for death, those that are in pain or penury are apt to desire to be dispatched upon any terms, and would freely pardon them, they say, that would give them their passport. But these, for the most part, consider not the unsupportableness of the wrath to come, that eternity of extremity in hell, that death usually baleth at the... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 3:22

Job 3:22 Which rejoice exceedingly, [and] are glad, when they can find the grave? Ver. 22. Which rejoice exceedingly ] Joy till they skip again, so Broughton rendereth it. Strange that any should be so glad of death, that last enemy, that slaughterman of nature, and harbinger of hell to the ungodly; but this the devil hideth from them till he hath them where he would have, and whence there is no redemption. What was it else that moved Augustus at his death to call for a round of applause or... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 3:23

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? ] i.e. Why is the light of life continued to him who is in a maze or labyrinth of miseries, whereof he can see no cause, and whereout he can descry no issue? no hope at all appeareth of ever either mending or ending. Therefore Vale lumen amicum, as he in St Jerome said, Sweet light, adieu; Quin morere ut merita es, as she in the poet, Be thine own... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Job 3:20

Wherefore: Job 6:9, Job 7:15, Job 7:16, Jeremiah 20:18 light: Job 3:16, Job 33:28, Job 33:30 the bitter: Job 7:15, Job 7:16, 1 Samuel 1:10, 2 Kings 4:27, Proverbs 31:6 Reciprocal: Genesis 27:46 - I am Genesis 30:1 - or else I die Exodus 16:3 - we had Numbers 11:15 - kill me 1 Kings 19:4 - he requested Job 9:18 - filleth me Job 10:1 - My soul Job 13:26 - writest Job 18:18 - He shall be driven Job 21:25 - in the bitterness Job 36:20 - Desire Job 40:2 - he that reproveth Ecclesiastes 2:17 - I... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Job 3:21

long: Heb. wait, Numbers 11:15, 1 Kings 19:4, Jonah 4:3, Jonah 4:8, Revelation 9:6 dig: Proverbs 2:4 Reciprocal: Job 36:20 - Desire read more

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Job 3:1-26

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 3:1-26

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 3:20

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 3:23

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 3:20

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 3:21

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 3:22

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 3:23

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Job 3:20

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Job 3:21

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