Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 3:2
And Job spoke, and said,
And Job spake – Margin, as in Hebrew, answered. The Hebrew word used here anah to answer, is often employed when one commences a discourse, even though no question had preceded. It is somewhat in the sense of replying to a subject, or of speaking in a case where a question might appropriately be asked; Isa. 14:l0 (Hebrew), Zec 3:4; Deu 26:5 (Hebrew), Deu 27:14 (Hebrew). The word to answer apokrinomai is frequently used in this way in the New Testament; Mat 17:4, Mat 17:17; Mat 28:5; Mar 9:5; Mar 10:51, et al.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
2. spakeHebrew,“answered,” that is, not to any actual question thatpreceded, but to the question virtually involved in the case. Hisoutburst is singularly wild and bold (Jer20:14). To desire to die so as to be free from sin is a mark ofgrace; to desire to die so as to escape troubles is a mark ofcorruption. He was ill-fitted to die who was so unwilling to live.But his trials were greater, and his light less, than ours.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And Job spake, and said. Or “answered and said” t, though not a word was spoken to him by his friends; he answered to his own calamity, and to their silence, as Schmidt observes; and this word is sometimes used when nothing goes before, to which the answer is, as many Jewish writers observe, as in Ex 32:27; Jarchi interprets it, “he cried”, and so some others u render it: from henceforwards to Job 42:6, this book is written in a poetical style, in Hebrew metre as is thought, which at present is pretty much unknown, even to the Jews themselves; some have been of opinion, that the following discourses between Job and his friends were not originally delivered in metre, but were put into this form by the penman or writer of the book; but of this we cannot be certain; in the Targum in the king of Spain’s Bible it is, “and Job sung and said”.
t “et respondit”, Pagninus, Montanus, Schmidt, Schultens, Michaelis. u “Clamavitquo”, Mercerus; “nam proloquens”, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
2. Job spake Hebrew, answered. Not their words, but their thoughts, as he had divined them. Or it may have respect to the occurrences of the last seven days (Comp. Mat 11:25.) Umbreit regards the word as intensive, and intended to increase the force of the following word.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Job 3:2 And Job spake, and said,
Ver. 2. And Job spake, and said ] Heb. Answered and said. Answered? Whom answered he? The Jewish doctors say, he answered his friends, who having hitherto said nothing to him, and heard as little from him, at length – rupere silentia voce, to destroy a silent voice, and asked him what he ailed? others more probably conceive that Job answered here to some dispute in his own mind, or rather with the devil. Some take this verse for a transition only. Others make it a preparation for Job’s future discourse, to move expectation, and win attention. The discourse indeed is all along, to Job 42:7 , poetical, and very accurate, made up in hexameters (as Jerome holdeth), not by Job and his friends at the first uttering, but afterwards by Job at better leisure; or, as some think, by Moses whilst a shepherd in Midian, for the comfort of his poor countrymen in Egypt, Sic et Ionas orationem suam in ventre balaenae habitam, et David plerosque Psalmos, &c. Mercer saith that his predecessor Vatablus (as he had heard) had found out a way of scanning these hexameters to others unknown, and to all the more obscure, because the verse causeth a cloud. The first hexameter that ever was made in Greek is said to be this,
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Birds, bring your plumes, and bees, your wax at once.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
spake = answered, i.e. began, or lamented. Hebrew idiom. See note on Deu 1:41.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
spake: Heb. answered, Jdg 18:14
Reciprocal: Job 4:1 – answered