Bible Commentary

Which rejoice exceedingly, [and] are glad, when they can find the grave? 22. rejoice exceedingly ] lit. rejoice even to exultation, Hos 9:1. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges Which rejoice exceedingly – Hebrew Who rejoice upon joy or exultation ( ‘el–gyl), that is, with exceedingly great joy. When they can find the … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 3:22”

Which long for death, but it [cometh] not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; Which long for death – Whose pain and anguish are so great that they would regard it as a privilege to die. Much as people dread death, and much as they have occasion to dread what is beyond, … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 3:21”

Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter [in] soul; 20. Wherefore is light given ] This is a possible translation, but more probably we should render, wherefore gives He light? the Author of light and life being alluded to obliquely and not named. The bitter is plur., … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 3:20”

The small and great are there; and the servant [is] free from his master. 19. small and great are there ] i. e. are there alike, the same. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges The small and the great are there – The old and the young, the high and the low. Death … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 3:19”

[There] the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. 18. the prisoners rest together ] The “prisoners” are not those immured in prison, but captives driven to forced labour. the oppressor ] The taskmaster, Exo 3:7. The prisoners are there all together, and they hear not the voice, the shouts and … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 3:18”

There the wicked cease [from] troubling; and there the weary be at rest. 17. cease from troubling ] That is, probably, not from troubling others, but from the unquiet of their own evil. Job 3:17-19 contain the two main ideas, first, that all, evil and good, great and small, are the same in the place … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 3:17”

Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants [which] never saw light. 16. With strong revulsion from the anguish of life Job desires even if possible a deeper death than to have died when born, even the death of having been dead born, scarcely to be distinguished from non-existence itself. Comp. … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 3:16”

Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: 15. their houses with silver ] There is no reason for supposing that “houses” means mausoleums or tombs. The reference is not to the practice of burying treasures along with the dead, nor to the idea that the pomp of riches could thus … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 3:15”

With kings and counselors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves; 14. which built desolate places ] The expression seems to be that which occurs several times in Scripture, e.g. Isa 58:12; Isa 61:4; Eze 36:10; Eze 36:33; Mal 1:4, and means to build up or rebuild ruins, i. e. cities or habitations … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 3:14”

For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, 13. The words receive their pathos from the contrast of his present anguish, Job 3:26. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges For now should I have lain still – In this verse Job … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 3:13”