(5) Stain.—Literally, redeem—i.e., claim as their rightful inheritance. The other meaning enters into this word, as in Isaiah 63:3; Malachi 1:7.Blackness of the day—i.e., preternatural darkness, inopportune and unexpected darkness, like that of eclipses, &c. read more
(6) Let it not be joined.—Rather, let it not rejoice among, as one of the glorious procession of nights. read more
(8) That curse the day—i.e., Let those who proclaim days unlucky or accursed curse that day as pre-eminently so; or let them recollect that day as a standard or sample of cursing. “Let it be as cursed as Job’s birth day.”These people are further described as being ready to arouse leviathan (Authorised Version, “raise up their mourning”), or the crocodile—persons as mad and desperate as that. Let the most hopeless and reckless of mankind select that day as the one which they would choose to... read more
(9) The dawning . . .—Literally, the eyelids of the dawn. read more
(12) Prevent—i.e., “Why was I nursed with care instead of being allowed to fall to the ground and be killed?” read more
(14) Desolate places—i.e., gorgeous tombs and splendid sepulchres, which, being tenanted only by the dead, are desolate; or it may mean that the places so built of old are now ruined and desolate. In the former sense it is possible that the Pyramids may here be hinted at. read more
(16) Untimely birth.—Another condition which would have relieved him from the experience of suffering. read more
(17) There—i.e., in the grave, the place indicated, but not distinctly expressed. read more
(18) The oppressor.—As this is the word rendered taskmaster in Exodus, some have thought there may be an allusion to that history here. read more
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Job 3:4
(4) Regard.—Literally, require, ask for, and so manifest care about. (Comp. Deuteronomy 11:12.) read more