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Job is the most penetrating treatment of suffering, divine justice, and epistemological humility in the Hebrew Bible. Its probable date is pre-Mosaic (patriarchal setting), making it one of the oldest compositions in Scripture.
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- Primary Witness Text: After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. And Job spake, and said, Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child 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 day terrify it. As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months. Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein. Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning. Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day: Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes. Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck? For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves; Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light. There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they h...
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Job is the most penetrating treatment of suffering, divine justice, and epistemological humility in the Hebrew Bible. Its probable date is pre-Mosaic (patriarchal setting), making it one of the oldest compositions in Scripture.
Job's friends represent the dominant ancient Near Eastern theodicy: suffering = sin. God's answer from the whirlwind (chs. 38-41) does not explain the suffering but confronts Job with the staggering scale and wisdom of the creation — demanding the creature's epistemological humility before the Creator. Job 19:25-27 ("I know that my Redeemer lives") stands as the OT's most personal resurrection confession.
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Job 3:1
Hebrew
אַחֲרֵי־כֵן פָּתַח אִיּוֹב אֶת־פִּיהוּ וַיְקַלֵּל אֶת־יוֹמֽוֹ׃'acharey-khen-fatach-'iyvov-'et-fiyhv-vayeqalel-'et-yvomvo
KJV: After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
AKJV: After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
ASV: After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
YLT: After this hath Job opened his mouth, and revileth his day.
Exposition: Job 3:1 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 3:2
Hebrew
וַיַּעַן אִיּוֹב וַיֹּאמַֽר׃vaya'an-'iyvov-vayo'mar
KJV: And Job spake, and said,
AKJV: And Job spoke, and said,
ASV: And Job answered and said:
YLT: And Job answereth and saith: --
Commentary Witness (Generated)Job 3:2Generated editorial synthesis
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Job 3:2
Job 3:2 advances the immediate literary flow of the chapter and should be interpreted in its canonical context, not as an isolated proof text. In the present translation it reads: 'And Job spake, and said,'. A close Hebrew reading supports attention to key lexical choices, clause movement, and redemptive-historical placement so doctrinal conclusions remain textually grounded.
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Job 3:2
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- Job 3:2
Exposition: Job 3:2 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'And Job spake, and said,'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 3:3
Hebrew
יֹאבַד יוֹם אִוָּלֶד בּוֹ וְהַלַּיְלָה אָמַר הֹרָה גָֽבֶר׃yo'vad-yvom-'ivaled-vvo-vehalayelah-'amar-horah-gaver
KJV: Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
AKJV: Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
ASV: Let the day perish wherein I was born,
YLT: Let the day perish in which I am born, And the night that hath said: `A man-child hath been conceived.'
Commentary WitnessJob 3:3Quoted commentary witness
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Job 3:3
Verse 3 There is a man-child conceived - The word הרה harah signifies to conceive; yet here, it seems, it should be taken in the sense of being born, as it is perfectly unlikely that the night of conception should be either distinctly known or published.
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Job 3:3
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Exposition: Job 3:3 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 3:4
Hebrew
הַיּוֹם הַהוּא יְֽהִי חֹשֶׁךְ אַֽל־יִדְרְשֵׁהוּ אֱלוֹהַּ מִמָּעַל וְאַל־תּוֹפַע עָלָיו נְהָרָֽה׃hayvom-hahv'-yehiy-choshekhe-'al-yidereshehv-'elvoha-mima'al-ve'al-tvofa'-'alayv-neharah
KJV: Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
AKJV: Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine on it.
ASV: Let that day be darkness;
YLT: That day--let it be darkness, Let not God require it from above, Nor let light shine upon it.
Commentary WitnessJob 3:4Quoted commentary witness
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Job 3:4
Verse 4 Let that day be darkness - The meaning is exactly the same with our expression, "Let it be blotted out of the calendar." However distinguished it may have been, as the birthday of a man once celebrated for his possessions, liberality, and piety, let it no longer be thus noted; as he who was thus celebrated is now the sport of adversity, the most impoverished, most afflicted, and most wretched of human beings. Let not God regard it from above - אל ידרשהו al yidreshehu, "Let Him not require it" - let Him not consider it essential to the completion of the days of the year; and therefore he adds, neither let the light shine upon it. If it must be a part of duration, let it not be distinguished by the light of the sun.
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Job 3:4
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Exposition: Job 3:4 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 3:5
Hebrew
יִגְאָלֻהוּ חֹשֶׁךְ וְצַלְמָוֶת תִּשְׁכָּן־עָלָיו עֲנָנָה יְבַעֲתֻהוּ כִּֽמְרִירֵי יֽוֹם׃yige'aluhv-choshekhe-vetzalemavet-tishekhan-'alayv-'ananah-yeva'atuhv-khimeriyrey-yvom
KJV: Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
AKJV: Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell on it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
ASV: Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own;
YLT: Let darkness and death-shade redeem it, Let a cloud tabernacle upon it, Let them terrify it as the most bitter of days.
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Job 3:5
Verse 5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it - יגאלהו yigaluhu, "pollute or avenge it," from גאל gaal, to vindicate, avenge, etc.; hence גאל goel, the nearest of kin, whose right it was to redeem an inheritance, and avenge the death of his relative by slaying the murderer. Let this day be pursued, overtaken, and destroyed. Let natural darkness, the total privation of the solar light, rendered still more intense by death's shadow projected over it, seize on and destroy this day, εκλαβοι αυτην, Septuagint; alluding, perhaps, says Mr. Parkhurst, to the avenger of blood seizing the offender. Let a cloud dwell upon it - Let the dymme cloude fall upon it - Coverdale. Let the thickest clouds have there their dwelling-place - let that be the period of time on which they shall constantly rest, and never be dispersed. This seems to be the import of the original, תשכן עליו אננה tishcan alaiv ananah. Let it be the place in which clouds shall be continually gathered together, so as to be the storehouse of the densest vapors, still in the act of being increasingly condensed. Let the blackness of the day terrify it - And let it be lapped in with sorrowe. - Coverdale. This is very expressive: lap signifies to fold up, or envelope any particular thing with fold upon fold, so as to cover it everywhere and secure it in all points. Leaving out the semicolon, we had better translate the whole clause thus: "Let the thickest cloud have its dwelling-place upon it, and let the bitterness of a day fill it with terror." A day similar to that, says the Targum, in which Jeremiah was distressed for the destruction of the house of the sanctuary; or like that in which Jonah was cast into the sea of Tarsis; such a day as that on which some great or national misfortune has happened: probably in allusion to that in which the darkness that might be felt enveloped the whole land of Egypt, and the night in which the destroying angel slew all the first-born in the land.
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Job 3:5
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- Septuagint
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- Mr
- Parkhurst
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- Tarsis
- Egypt
Exposition: Job 3:5 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 3:6
Hebrew
הַלַּיְלָה הַהוּא יִקָּחֵהוּ אֹפֶל אַל־יִחַדְּ בִּימֵי שָׁנָה בְּמִסְפַּר יְרָחִים אַל־יָבֹֽא׃halayelah-hahv'-yiqachehv-'ofel-'al-yichade-viymey-shanah-vemisefar-yerachiym-'al-yavo'
KJV: As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
AKJV: As for that night, let darkness seize on it; let it not be joined to the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
ASV: As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it:
YLT: That night--let thick darkness take it, Let it not be united to days of the year, Into the number of months let it not come.
Commentary WitnessJob 3:6Quoted commentary witness
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Job 3:6
Verse 6 As for that night, let darkness seize upon it - I think the Targum has hit the sense of this whole verse: "Let darkness seize upon that night; let it not be reckoned among the annual festivals; in the number of the months of the calendar let it not be computed." Some understand the word אפל ophel as signifying a dark storm; hence the Vulgate, tenebrosus turbo, "a dark whirlwind." And hence Coverdale, Let the darck storme overcome that night, let it not be reckoned amonge the dayes off the yeare, nor counted in the monethes. Every thing is here personified; day, night, darkness, shadow of death, cloud, etc.; and the same idea of the total extinction of that portion of time, or its being rendered ominous and portentous, is pursued through all these verses, from the third to the ninth, inclusive. The imagery is diversified, the expressions varied, but the idea is the same.
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Job 3:6
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- Vulgate
- Targum
- Coverdale
Exposition: Job 3:6 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 3:7
Hebrew
הִנֵּה הַלַּיְלָה הַהוּא יְהִי גַלְמוּד אַל־תָּבֹא רְנָנָה בֽוֹ׃hineh-halayelah-hahv'-yehiy-galemvd-'al-tavo'-renanah-vvo
KJV: Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
AKJV: See, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
ASV: Lo, let that night be barren;
YLT: Lo! that night--let it be gloomy, Let no singing come into it.
Commentary WitnessJob 3:7Quoted commentary witness
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Job 3:7
Verse 7 Lo, let that night be solitary - The word הנה hinneh, behold, or lo, is wanting in one of De Rossi's MSS., nor is it expressed in the Septuagint, Vulgate, Syriac, or Arabic. The word גלמוד galmud, which we translate solitary, is properly Arabic. From ghalama or jalama, signifying to cut off, make bare, amputate, comes jalmud, a rock, a great stone; and jalameedet, weight, a burden, trouble, from which we may gather Job's meaning: "Let that night be grievous, oppressive, as destitute of good as a bare rock is of verdure." The Targum gives the sense, In that night let there be tribulation. Let no joyful voice come therein - Let there be no choirs of singers; no pleasant music heard; no dancing or merriment. The word רננה renanah signifies any brisk movement, such as the vibration of the rays of light, or the brisk modulation of the voice in a cheerful ditty. The Targum has, Let not the crowing of the rural or wild cock resound in it. Let all work be intermitted; let there be no sportive exercises, and let all animals be totally silent.
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Job 3:7
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- Septuagint
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Exposition: Job 3:7 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 3:8
Hebrew
יִקְּבֻהוּ אֹרְרֵי־יוֹם הָעֲתִידִים עֹרֵר לִוְיָתָֽן׃yiqevuhv-'orerey-yvom-ha'atiydiym-'orer-liveyatan
KJV: Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
AKJV: Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
ASV: Let them curse it that curse the day,
YLT: Let the cursers of day mark it, Who are ready to wake up Leviathan.
Commentary WitnessJob 3:8Quoted commentary witness
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Job 3:8
Verse 8 Let them curse it that curse the day - This translation is scarcely intelligible. I have waded through a multitude of interpretations, without being able to collect from them such a notion of the verse as could appear to me probable. Schultens, Rosenmller, and after them Mr. Good, have labored much to make it plain. They think the custom of sorcerers who had execrations for peoples, places, things, days, etc., is here referred to; such as Balaam, Elymas, and many others were: but I cannot think that a man who knew the Divine Being and his sole government of the world so well as Job did, would make such an allusion, who must have known that such persons and their pretensions were impostors and execrable vanities. I shall give as near a translation as I can of the words, and subjoin a short paraphrase: יקבהו אררי יום העתידימערר לויתן yikkebuhu orerey yom haathidim orer livyathan; "Let them curse it who detest the day; them who are ready to raise up the leviathan." That is, Let them curse my birthday who hate daylight, such as adulterers, murderers, thieves, and banditti, for whose practices the night is more convenient; and let them curse it who, being like me weary of life, are desperate enough to provoke the leviathan, the crocodile, to tear them to pieces. This version is nearly the same as that given by Coverdale. Let them that curse the daye give it their curse also, then those that be ready to rayse up leviathan. By leviathan some understand the greatest and most imminent dangers; and others, the devil, whom the enchanters are desperate enough to attempt to raise by their incantations. Calmet understands the whole to be spoken of the Atlantes, a people of Ethiopia, who curse the sun because it parches their fields and their bodies; and who fearlessly attack, kill, and eat the crocodile. This seems a good sense.
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Job 3:8
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- Ray
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- Rosenmller
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- Good
- Balaam
- Elymas
- Coverdale
- Atlantes
- Ethiopia
Exposition: Job 3:8 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 3:9
Hebrew
יֶחְשְׁכוּ כּוֹכְבֵי נִשְׁפּוֹ יְקַו־לְאוֹר וָאַיִן וְאַל־יִרְאֶה בְּעַפְעַפֵּי־שָֽׁחַר׃yecheshekhv-khvokhevey-nishefvo-yeqav-le'vor-va'ayin-ve'al-yire'eh-ve'afe'afey-shachar
KJV: Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
AKJV: Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
ASV: Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark:
YLT: Let the stars of its twilight be dark, Let it wait for light, and there is none, And let it not look on the eyelids of the dawn.
Commentary WitnessJob 3:9Quoted commentary witness
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Job 3:9
Verse 9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof - The stars of the twilight may here refer to the planets Venus, Jupiter, Mars, and Mercury, as well as to the brighter fixed stars. Let it look for light - Here the prosopopoeia or personification is still carried on. The darkness is represented as waiting for the lustre of the evening star, but is disappointed; and these for the aurora or dawn, but equally in vain. He had prayed that its light, the sun, should not shine upon it, Job 3:4; and here he prays that its evening star may be totally obscured, and that it might never see the dawning of the day. Thus his execration comprehends every thing that might irradiate or enliven it.
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Job 3:9
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- Job 3:4
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- Ray
- Venus
- Jupiter
- Mars
- Mercury
Exposition: Job 3:9 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 3:10
Hebrew
כִּי לֹא סָגַר דַּלְתֵי בִטְנִי וַיַּסְתֵּר עָמָל מֵעֵינָֽי׃khiy-lo'-sagar-daletey-viteniy-vayaseter-'amal-me'eynay
KJV: Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
AKJV: Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from my eyes.
ASV: Because it shut not up the doors of mymother’swomb,
YLT: Because it hath not shut the doors Of the womb that was mine! And hide misery from mine eyes.
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Job 3:10
Verse 10 Because it shut not up the doors - Here is the reason why he curses the day and the night in which he was conceived and born; because, had he never been brought into existence, he would never have seen trouble. It seems, however, very harsh that he should have wished the destruction of his mother, in order that his birth might have been prevented; and I rather think Job's execration did not extend thus far. The Targum understands the passage as speaking of the umbilical cord, by which the fetus is nourished in its mother's womb: had this been shut up, there must have been a miscarriage, or he must have been dead born; and thus sorrow would have been hidden from his eyes. This seeming gloss is much nearer the letter and spirit of the Hebrew than is generally imagined. I shall quote the words: כי לא סגר דלתי בטני ki lo sagar dalthey bitni, because it did not shut up the doors of my belly. This is much more consistent with the feelings of humanity, than to wish his mother's womb to have been his grave.
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Exposition: Job 3:10 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 3:11
Hebrew
לָמָּה לֹּא מֵרֶחֶם אָמוּת מִבֶּטֶן יָצָאתִי וְאֶגְוָֽע׃lamah-lo'-merechem-'amvt-miveten-yatza'tiy-ve'egeva'
KJV: Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
AKJV: Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
ASV: Why died I not from the womb?
YLT: Why from the womb do I not die? From the belly I have come forth and gasp!
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Verse 11 Why died I not from the womb - As the other circumstance did not take place, why was I not still-born, without the possibility of reviviscence? or, as this did not occur, why did I not die as soon as born? These three things appear to me to be clearly intended here: - 1. Dying in the womb, or never coming to maturity, as in the case of an abortion. 2. Being still-born, without ever being able to breathe. 3. Or, if born alive, dying within a short time after. And to these states he seems to refer in the following verses.
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Exposition: Job 3:11 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 3:12
Hebrew
מַדּוּעַ קִדְּמוּנִי בִרְכָּיִם וּמַה־שָּׁדַיִם כִּי אִינָֽק׃madv'a-qidemvniy-virekhayim-vmah-shadayim-khiy-'iynaq
KJV: Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
AKJV: Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
ASV: Why did the knees receive me?
YLT: Wherefore have knees been before me? And what are breasts, that I suck?
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Verse 12 Why did the knees prevent me? - Why was I dandled on the knees? Why was I nourished by the breasts? In either of the above cases I had neither been received into a mother's lap, nor hung upon a mother's breasts.
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Exposition: Job 3:12 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 3:13
Hebrew
כִּֽי־עַתָּה שָׁכַבְתִּי וְאֶשְׁקוֹט יָשַׁנְתִּי אָז ׀ יָנוּחַֽ לִֽי׃khiy-'atah-shakhavetiy-ve'esheqvot-yashanetiy-'az- -yanvcha-liy
KJV: For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
AKJV: For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
ASV: For now should I have lain down and been quiet;
YLT: For now, I have lain down, and am quiet, I have slept--then there is rest to me,
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Verse 13 For now should I have lain still - In that case I had been insensible; quiet - without these overwhelming agitations; slept - unconscious of evil; been at rest - been out of the reach of calamity and sorrow.
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Exposition: Job 3:13 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 3:14
Hebrew
עִם־מְלָכִים וְיֹעֲצֵי אָרֶץ הַבֹּנִים חֳרָבוֹת לָֽמוֹ׃'im-melakhiym-veyo'atzey-'aretz-havoniym-choravvot-lamvo
KJV: With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
AKJV: With kings and counsellors of the earth, which build desolate places for themselves;
ASV: With kings and counsellors of the earth,
YLT: With kings and counsellors of earth, These building wastes for themselves.
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Verse 14 With kings and counsellors of the earth - I believe this translation to be perfectly correct. The counsellors, יעצי yoatsey, I suppose to mean the privy council, or advisers of kings; those without whose advice kings seldom undertake wars, expeditions, etc. These mighty agitators of the world are at rest in their graves, after the lives of commotion which they have led among men: most of whom indeed have been the troublers of the peace of the globe. Which built desolate places - Who erect mausoleums, funeral monuments, sepulchral pyramids, etc., to keep their names from perishing, while their bodies are turned to corruption. I cannot think, with some learned men, that Job is here referring to those patriotic princes who employed themselves in repairing the ruins and desolations which others had occasioned. His simple idea is, that, had he died from the womb, he would have been equally at rest, neither troubling nor troubled, as those defunct kings and planners of wars and great designs are, who have nothing to keep even their names from perishing, but the monuments which they have raised to contain their corrupting flesh, moldering bones, and dust.
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Exposition: Job 3:14 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 3:15
Hebrew
אוֹ עִם־שָׂרִים זָהָב לָהֶם הַֽמְמַלְאִים בָּתֵּיהֶם כָּֽסֶף׃'vo-'im-shariym-zahav-lahem-hamemale'iym-vateyhem-khasef
KJV: Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
AKJV: Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
ASV: Or with princes that had gold,
YLT: Or with princes--they have gold, They are filling their houses with silver.
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Verse 15 Or with princes that had gold - Chief or mighty men, lords of the soil, or fortunate adventurers in merchandise, who got gold in abundance, filled their houses with silver, left all behind, and had nothing reserved for themselves but the empty places which they had made for their last dwelling, and where their dust now sleeps, devoid of care, painful journeys, and anxious expectations. He alludes here to the case of the covetous, whom nothing can satisfy, as an Asiatic writer has observed, but the dust that fills his mouth when laid in the grave - Saady.
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- Saady
Exposition: Job 3:15 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 3:16
Hebrew
אוֹ כְנֵפֶל טָמוּן לֹא אֶהְיֶה כְּעֹלְלִים לֹא־רָאוּ אֽוֹר׃'vo-khenefel-tamvn-lo'-'eheyeh-khe'oleliym-lo'-ra'v-'vor
KJV: Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
AKJV: Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
ASV: Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been,
YLT: (Or as a hidden abortion I am not, As infants--they have not seen light.)
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Verse 16 Or as a hidden untimely birth - An early miscarriage, which was scarcely perceptible by the parent herself; and in this case he had not been - he had never had the distinguishable form of a human being, whether male or female. As infants - Little ones; those farther advanced in maturity, but miscarried long before the time of birth.
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Exposition: Job 3:16 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 3:17
Hebrew
שָׁם רְשָׁעִים חָדְלוּ רֹגֶז וְשָׁם יָנוּחוּ יְגִיעֵי כֹֽחַ׃sham-resha'iym-chadelv-rogez-vesham-yanvchv-yegiy'ey-khocha
KJV: There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
AKJV: There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
ASV: There the wicked cease from troubling;
YLT: There the wicked have ceased troubling, And there rest do the wearied in power.
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Verse 17 There the wicked cease - In the grave the oppressors of men cease from irritating, harassing, and distressing their fellow creatures and dependents. And there the weary be at rest - Those who were worn out with the cruelties and tyrannies of the above. The troubles and the troubled, the restless and the submissive, the toils of the great and the labors of the slave, are here put in opposition.
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Exposition: Job 3:17 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 3:18
Hebrew
יַחַד אֲסִירִים שַׁאֲנָנוּ לֹא שָׁמְעוּ קוֹל נֹגֵֽשׂ׃yachad-'asiyriym-sha'ananv-lo'-shame'v-qvol-nogesh
KJV: There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
AKJV: There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
ASV: There the prisoners are at ease together;
YLT: Together prisoners have been at ease, They have not heard the voice of an exactor,
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Verse 18 The prisoners rest together - Those who were slaves, feeling all the troubles, and scarcely tasting any of the pleasures of life, are quiet in the grave together; and the voice of the oppressor, the hard, unrelenting task-master, which was more terrible than death, is heard no more. They are free from his exactions, and his mouth is silent in the dust. This may be a reference to the Egyptian bondage. The children of Israel cried by reason of their oppressors or task-masters.
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Exposition: Job 3:18 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 3:19
Hebrew
קָטֹן וְגָדוֹל שָׁם הוּא וְעֶבֶד חָפְשִׁי מֵאֲדֹנָֽיו׃qaton-vegadvol-sham-hv'-ve'eved-chafeshiy-me'adonayv
KJV: The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
AKJV: The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
ASV: The small and the great are there:
YLT: Small and great are there the same. And a servant is free from his lord.
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Verse 19 The small and great are there - All sorts and conditions of men are equally blended in the grave, and ultimately reduced to one common dust; and between the bond and free there is no difference. The grave is "The appointed place of rendezvous, where all These travelers meet." Equality is absolute among the sons of men in their entrance into and exit from the world: all the intermediate state is disparity. All men begin and end life alike; and there is no difference between the king and the cottager. A contemplation of this should equally humble the great and the small. The saying is trite, but it is true: - Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas, Regumque turres. Hor. Odar. lib. i., Od. iv., ver. 13. "With equal pace impartial Fate Knocks at the palace as the cottage gate." Death is that state,"Where they an equal honor shareWho buried or unburied are.Where Agamemnon knows no moreThan Irus he contemn'd before.Where fair Achilles and Thersites lie,Equally naked, poor, and dry." And why do not the living lay these things to heart? There is a fine saying in Seneca ad Marciam, cap. 20, on this subject, which may serve as a comment on this place: Mors-servitutem invito domino remittit; haec captivorum catenas levat; haec e carcere eduxit, quos exire imperium impotens vetuerat. Haec est in quo nemo humilitatem suam sensit; haec quae nulli paruit; haec quae nihil quicquam alieno fecit arbitrio. Haec, ubi res communes fortuna male divisit, et aequo jure genitos alium alii donavit, exaequat omnia. - "Death, in spite of the master, manumits the slave. It loosens the chains of the prisoners. It brings out of the dungeon those whom impotent authority had forbidden to go at large. This is the state in which none is sensible of his humiliation. Death obeys no man. It does nothing according to the will of another. It reduces, by a just law, to a state of equality, all who in their families and circumstances had unequal lots in life."
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Job 3:19
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- Hor
- Odar
- Od
- Marciam
- Haec
- Death
Exposition: Job 3:19 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 3:20
Hebrew
לָמָּה יִתֵּן לְעָמֵל אוֹר וְחַיִּים לְמָרֵי נָֽפֶשׁ׃lamah-yiten-le'amel-'vor-vechayiym-lemarey-nafesh
KJV: Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
AKJV: Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul;
ASV: Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery,
YLT: Why giveth He to the miserable light, and life to the bitter soul?
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Verse 20 Wherefore is light given - Why is life granted to him who is incapable of enjoying it, or of performing its functions?
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Exposition: Job 3:20 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 3:21
Hebrew
הַֽמְחַכִּים לַמָּוֶת וְאֵינֶנּוּ וַֽיַּחְפְּרֻהוּ מִמַּטְמוֹנִֽים׃hamechakhiym-lamavet-ve'eynenv-vayacheferuhv-mimatemvoniym
KJV: Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
AKJV: Which long for death, but it comes not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
ASV: Who long for death, but it cometh not,
YLT: Who are waiting for death, and it is not, And they seek it above hid treasures.
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Verse 21 Which long for death - They look to it as the end of all their miseries; and long more for a separation from life, than those who love gold do for a rich mine.
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Exposition: Job 3:21 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 3:22
Hebrew
הַשְּׂמֵחִים אֱלֵי־גִיל יָשִׂישׂוּ כִּי יִמְצְאוּ־קָֽבֶר׃hashemechiym-'eley-giyl-yashiyshv-khiy-yimetze'v-qaver
KJV: Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
AKJV: Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
ASV: Who rejoice exceedingly,
YLT: Who are glad--unto joy, They rejoice when they find a grave.
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Verse 22 Which rejoice exceedingly - Literally, They rejoice with joy, and exult when they find the grave. There is a various reading here in one of Kennicott's MSS., which gives a different sense. Instead of who rejoice, אלי גיל eley gil, with Joy, it has אלי גל eley gal, who rejoice at the Tomb, and exult when they find the grave.
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- Literally
- Joy
- Tomb
Exposition: Job 3:22 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 3:23
Hebrew
לְגֶבֶר אֲשֶׁר־דַּרְכּוֹ נִסְתָּרָה וַיָּסֶךְ אֱלוֹהַּ בַּעֲדֽוֹ׃legever-'asher-darekhvo-nisetarah-vayasekhe-'elvoha-va'advo
KJV: Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
AKJV: Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God has hedged in?
ASV: Why is light givento a man whose way is hid,
YLT: To a man whose way hath been hidden, And whom God doth shut up?
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Verse 23 To a man whose way is hid - Who knows not what is before him in either world, but is full of fears and trembling concerning both. God hath hedged in? - Leaving him no way to escape; and not permitting him to see one step before him. There is an exact parallel to this passage in Lam 3:7, Lam 3:9 : He hath hedged me about that I cannot get out. He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone. Mr. Good translates the verse thus: To the man whose path is broken up, and whose futurity God hath overwhelmed. But I cannot see any necessity for departing from the common text, which gives both an easy and a natural sense.
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Job 3:23
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- Lam 3:7
- Lam 3:9
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- Mr
Exposition: Job 3:23 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 3:24
Hebrew
כִּֽי־לִפְנֵי לַחְמִי אַנְחָתִי תָבֹא וַֽיִּתְּכוּ כַמַּיִם שַׁאֲגֹתָֽי׃khiy-lifeney-lachemiy-'anechatiy-tavo'-vayitekhv-khamayim-sha'agotay
KJV: For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
AKJV: For my sighing comes before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
ASV: For my sighing cometh before I eat,
YLT: For before my food, my sighing cometh, And poured out as waters are my roarings.
Commentary WitnessJob 3:24Quoted commentary witness
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Job 3:24
Verse 24 For my sighing cometh - Some think that this refers to the ulcerated state of Job's body, mouth, hands, etc. He longed for food, but was not able to lift it to his mouth with his hands, nor masticate it when brought thither. This is the sense in which Origen has taken the words. But perhaps it is most natural to suppose that he means his sighing took away all appetite, and served him in place of meat. There is the same thought in Psa 42:3 : My tears have been my meat day and night; which place is not an imitation of Job, but more likely Job an imitation of it, or, rather, both an imitation of nature. My roarings are poured out - My lamentations are like the noise of the murmuring stream, or the dashings of the overswollen torrent.
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Job 3:24
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- Job
Exposition: Job 3:24 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 3:25
Hebrew
כִּי פַחַד פָּחַדְתִּי וַיֶּאֱתָיֵנִי וַאֲשֶׁר יָגֹרְתִּי יָבֹא לִֽי׃khiy-fachad-fachadetiy-vaye'etayeniy-va'asher-yagoretiy-yavo'-liy
KJV: For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
AKJV: For the thing which I greatly feared is come on me, and that which I was afraid of is come to me.
ASV: For the thing which I fear cometh upon me,
YLT: For a fear I feared and it meeteth me, And what I was afraid of doth come to me.
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Job 3:25
Verse 25 For the thing which I greatly reared - Literally, the fear that I feared; or, I feared a fear, as in the margin. While I was in prosperity I thought adversity might come, and I had a dread of it. I feared the loss of my family and my property; and both have occurred. I was not lifted up: I knew that what I possessed I had from Divine Providence, and that he who gave might take away. I am not stripped of my all as a punishment for my self-confidence.
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Job 3:25
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- Ovid
- Literally
- Divine Providence
Exposition: Job 3:25 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
Job 3:26
Hebrew
לֹא שָׁלַוְתִּי ׀ וְלֹא שָׁקַטְתִּי וְֽלֹא־נָחְתִּי וַיָּבֹא רֹֽגֶז׃lo'-shalavetiy- -velo'-shaqatetiy-velo'-nachetiy-vayavo'-rogez
KJV: I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
AKJV: I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
ASV: I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest;
YLT: I was not safe--nor was I quiet--Nor was I at rest--and trouble cometh!
Commentary WitnessJob 3:26Quoted commentary witness
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Job 3:26
Verse 26 I was not in safety - If this verse be read interrogatively, it will give a good and easy sense: Was I not in safety? Had I not rest? Was I not in comfort? Yet trouble came. It is well known that, previously to this attack of Satan, Job was in great prosperity and peace. Mr. Good translates, I had no peace; yea, I had no rest. Yea, I had no respite, as the trouble came on; and refers the whole to the quick succession of the series of heavy evils by which he was tried. There is a similar thought in the Psalmist: Deep crieth unto deep at the noise of thy water-spouts; all thy waves and thy billows have gone over me; Psa 42:7. One evil treads on the heels of another. In this chapter Job's conflict begins. Now, and not before, Satan appears to have access to his mind. When he deprived him of his property, and, what was still dearer, of his sons and his daughters, the hope of his family, he bore all with the most exemplary patience, and the deepest resignation to the Divine will. When his adversary was permitted to touch his body, and afflict it in the most grievous and distressing manner, rendered still more intolerable by his being previously deprived of all the comforts and necessaries of life; still he held fast his integrity; no complaint, no murmur was heard. From the Lord's hand he received his temporal good; and from that hand he received his temporal evil, the privation of that good. Satan was, therefore, baffled in all his attempts; Job continued to be a perfect and upright man, fearing God, and avoiding evil. This was Job's triumph, or rather the triumph of Divine grace; and Satan's defeat and confusion. It is indeed very seldom that God permits Satan to waste the substance or afflict the body of any man; but at all times this malevolent spirit may have access to the mind of any man, and inject doubts, fears, diffidence, perplexities, and even unbelief. And here is the spiritual conflict. Now, their wrestling is not with flesh and blood - with men like themselves, nor about secular affairs; but they have to contend with angels, principalities and powers, and the rulers of the darkness of this world, and spiritual wickednesses in heavenly places. In such cases Satan is often permitted to diffuse darkness into the understanding, and envelope the heavens with clouds. Hence are engendered false views of God and his providence, of men, of the spiritual world, and particularly of the person's own state and circumstances. Every thing is distorted, and all seen through a false medium. Indescribable distractions and uneasiness are hereby induced; the mind is like a troubled sea, tossed by a tempest that seems to confound both heaven and earth. Strong temptations to things which the soul contemplates with abhorrence are injected; and which are followed by immediate accusations, as if the injections were the offspring of the heart itself; and the trouble and dismay produced are represented as the sense of guilt, from a consciousness of having, in heart, committed these evils. Thus Satan tempts, accuses, and upbraids, in order to perplex the soul, induce skepticism, and destroy the empire of faith. Behold here the permission of God, and behold also his sovereign control: all this time the grand tempter is not permitted to touch the heart, the seat of the affections, nor offer even the slightest violence to the will. The soul is cast down, but not destroyed; perplexed, but not in despair. It is on all sides harassed; without are fightings, within are fears: but the will is inflexible on the side of God and truth, and the heart, with all its train of affections and passions, follows it. The man does not wickedly depart from his God; the outworks are violently assailed, but not taken; the city is still safe, and the citadel impregnable. Heaviness may endure for the night, but joy cometh in the morning. Jesus is soon seen walking upon the waters. He speaks peace to the winds and the sea: immediately there is a calm. Satan is bruised down under the feet of the sufferer, the clouds are dispersed, the heavens re-appear, and the soul, to its surprise, finds that the storm, instead of hindering, has driven it nearer to the haven whither it would be. The reader who closely examines the subject will find that this was the case of Job. The following chapters show the conflict of the soul; the end of the book, God's victory and his exaltation. Satan sifted Job as wheat, but his faith failed not.
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Job 3:26
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- Ovid
- Jesus
- Satan
- Mr
- Yea
- Psalmist
- Now
- Job
Exposition: Job 3:26 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
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- Job 3:1-12
- Job 3:13-19
- Jer 20:14-18
- Job 3:1
- Job 3:2
- Job 3:3
- Job 3:4
- Job 3:5
- Job 3:6
- Job 3:7
- Job 3:8
- Job 3:9
- Job 3:10
- Job 3:11
- Job 3:12
- Job 3:13
- Job 3:14
- Job 3:15
- Job 3:16
- Job 3:17
- Job 3:18
- Job 3:19
- Job 3:20
- Job 3:21
- Job 3:22
- Lam 3:7
- Lam 3:9
- Job 3:23
- Job 3:24
- Job 3:25
- Job 3:26
Named authorities or texts surfaced in commentary
- Ovid
- Jeremiah
- Septuagint
- Targum
- Mr
- Parkhurst
- Coverdale
- Tarsis
- Egypt
- Vulgate
- Ray
- Lo
- Syriac
- Arabic
- Schultens
- Rosenmller
- Good
- Balaam
- Elymas
- Atlantes
- Ethiopia
- Venus
- Jupiter
- Mars
- Mercury
- Or
- Saady
- Hor
- Odar
- Od
- Marciam
- Haec
- Death
- Literally
- Joy
- Tomb
- Job
- Divine Providence
- Jesus
- Satan
- Yea
- Psalmist
- Now
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Job 3:1
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