Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Job 3:23
(23) Hedged in.—The same expression was used in an opposite sense in Job 1:10. read more
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Charles John Ellicott
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Job 3:25
(25) For the thing which I greatly feared . . .—Comp. Proverbs 28:14. It means that he had always had in remembrance the uncertainty and instability of earthly things, an yet he had been overtaken by a calamity that mocked his carefulness and exceeded his apprehensions. read more
William Nicoll
Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Job 3:1-26
Job 3:1-4 He had long been in the habit of 'lamenting' his birthday, though, in earlier days, Stella and other friends had celebrated the anniversary. Now it became a day of unmixed gloom, and the chapter in which Job curses the hour of his birth lay open all day on his table. Sir Leslie Stephen, Swift, p. 198. Job 3:6 Sept. 6, 1879. Red Sea. I am in a very angry mood. I feel sure that, doing my best, I cannot get with credit out of this business; I feel it is want of faith, but I have brought... read more
William Nicoll
Expositor's Bible Commentary - Job 3:1-26
VI.THE CRY FROM THE DEPTHJob 3:1-26Job SPEAKSWHILE the friends of Job sat beside him that dreary week of silence, each of them was meditating in his own way the sudden calamities which had brought the prosperous emeer to poverty, the strong man to this extremity of miserable disease. Many thoughts came and were dismissed; but always the question returned, Why these disasters, this shadow of dreadful death? And for very compassion and sorrow each kept secret the answer that came and came again... read more
Arno Clemens Gaebelein
Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Job 3:1-26
CHAPTER 3 Job’s Lament 1. Job curses the day of his birth (Job 3:1-9 ) 2. He longs for death (Job 3:10-23 ) 3. The reason why (Job 3:24-26 ) Job 3:1-9 . The silence is broken by Job. Alas! his lips do not utter praises now, but he cursed the day of his birth. It was a sore trial for Job to look into the faces of these pious friends, in perfect health and strength, and he, even more pious than they, stricken and smitten of God. It was an aggravation of Job’s grief and sorrow. But let us... read more
John Calvin
Geneva Study Bible - Job 3:1
3:1 After this opened {a} Job his mouth, and {b} cursed his day.(a) The seven days ended, Job 2:13.(b) Here Job begins to feel his great imperfection in this battle between the spirit and the flesh, Romans 7:18 and after a manner yields yet in the end he gets victory though he was in the mean time greatly wounded. read more
John Calvin
Geneva Study Bible - Job 3:3
3:3 Let the day {c} perish wherein I was born, and the night [in which] it was said, There is a man child conceived.(c) Men should not be weary of their life and curse it, because of the infinities that it is subject to, but because they are given to sin and rebellion against God. read more
John Calvin
Geneva Study Bible - Job 3:4
3:4 Let that day be darkness; let not God {d} regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.(d) Let it be put out of the number of days, and let it not have the sight of the sun to separate it from the night. read more
John Calvin
Geneva Study Bible - Job 3:5
3:5 Let darkness and the {e} shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.(e) That is, most obscure darkness, which makes them afraid of death that they are in it. read more
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Job 3:20
(20) Wherefore is light given.—Comp. the connection between life and light in Psalms 36:9 and John 1:4. read more