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Job 3 |
King James Version
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Job 3:1 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
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Job 3:2 And Job spake, and said,
The wise man is no babbler, nor does he utter through his mouth anything that cannot happen. Thus he does not curse the day as a period of time but those things that occurred on that day. For it is Scripture’s custom to call occurrences a “day.” This the psalmist teaches us, when he says, “The Lord delivers them in the day of trouble.” Thereby he does not refer to “day of trouble” as a period of time but to the trouble that happened on that day. Paul’s statement, “because the days are evil,” also has the same meaning. One can say that the day’s events are good for some and bad for others. Thus, for the people of Israel who crossed the Red Sea against their expectations, the day was good. For the Egyptians, however, the day was bad, for “they sank like lead in the mighty waters.” - "Commentary on Job 3.1"
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Job 3:3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night [in which] it was said, There is a man child conceived.
“Let the day perish in which I was born,” not the day in which I was formed but that “in which I was born.” … God, in fact, forms me into goodness, but Eve, who transgressed, conceives me into sadness. And David himself did not ignore that, but after learning it from the Spirit, he introduces the concept into a prophetic psalm with these terms: “For, behold, I was conceived in iniquities, and in sins did my mother conceive me.” How? To be sure, Eve began to conceive and give birth after the fall in paradise and after the transgression due to the miserable nourishment of the tree. - "Homilies on Job 6.3.3"
Learn here the reason which led the Emmanuel to a new birth in the flesh. Certainly the sin of the world was the reason for the advent of Christ. - "Commentary on Job 3.4"
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Job 3:4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
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Job 3:5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
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Job 3:6 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.
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Job 3:7 Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
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Job 3:8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
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Job 3:9 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:
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Job 3:10 Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother's] womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
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Job 3:11 Why died I not from the womb? [why] did I [not] give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
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Job 3:12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
Do not be amazed when I tell you that Job did not speak these words. I mistake him for another. These are words that I lend to Job and are contrary to his benevolence and profound goodness. In fact, Job had no desire to say anything of the sort. He suffered righteously what he was suffering, so that he reasonably and wisely said that “he was not born.” This is exactly what Christ himself said about Judas: “It would have been better for that man if he had not been born.” And Job says much the same thing: “Why was I born? It would have been better if I had not been born.” - "Commentary on Job 3.11a–16b"
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Job 3:13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
To enjoy the beauty of God’s creation is desirable. It is a good thing to become a human being and to receive the image of God. It is not good to linger in an impure life. Many people are fascinated by an impure life, but not the righteous. Therefore, the departure from this world is no reason for sadness, for death is rest and deliverance from pain. Death is sleep. To depart from one’s body is rest. - "Homilies on Job 6.3.13–16"
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Job 3:14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
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Job 3:15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
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Job 3:16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants [which] never saw light.
It seems to me that Job attempts to humble these noble characters and to persuade them not to attach a great importance to human affairs, because he has not introduced the kings into this passage without purpose or at random. Job speaks of “those who gloried in their swords.” Notice again how amid his afflictions Job possesses words full of wisdom. Their wealth, in fact, has granted the kings no protection; their power has been of no use; death has come at the end for everyone. “Or like a stillborn child that never sees the light,” he says. Notice how, in order that he may not appear to be arrogant, he even compares himself with a stillborn child, so absolutely wretched and pitiful is he. - "Commentary on Job 3.20–23"
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Job 3:17 There the wicked cease [from] troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
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Job 3:18 [There] the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
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Job 3:19 The small and great are there; and the servant [is] free from his master.
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Job 3:20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter [in] soul;
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Job 3:21 Which long for death, but it [cometh] not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
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Job 3:22 Which rejoice exceedingly, [and] are glad, when they can find the grave?
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Job 3:23 [Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
“Why is light given,” Job asks, “to those whose soul dwells in bitterness, and life to those souls who are in pain?” Again this is not the language—God forbid!—of someone who makes rebukes, but of someone who searches and suffers. In fact, when words are spoken with a different spirit, they must not be interpreted in the same manner. Therefore, when a philosopher asserts, “Why does a senseless person have riches at his disposal?” he only shows that he is unworthy of riches. From this we learn that not only life but also death is useful, when it is more desired than evil. In this way Job speaks of “those who long for death,” but, he says, “it does not come.” That is why the Preacher in Ecclesiastes says, “For everything there is a season” and, in another passage, “O death, how your memory is sweet.” When you hear Job’s wife suggesting to him, “Curse God, and die,” you should not suppose that he did not answer because of his love of life but because of his piety. Indeed he who considered death to be very desirable and saw it as a real goodness when he was allowed to obtain it did not dare speak against God. “Death is rest for man.” This is what Job declares. Now if death brings rest, why don’t the majority of people rush to it? Because God has made life desirable in order to prevent us from running to death. “Its way is hidden.” In my opinion Job is speaking about death, but by pretending that his words are about the way of humankind. This indicates that Job’s words concerning death are what has been said before, especially in the expression, “they dig for it more than for hidden treasures,” things that are evidently hidden. Our future is unknown, Job says. We do not uncover it. Please do not speak to me about those who hang themselves, because Job speaks about what conforms to nature and the commandments of God. “God has surrounded it,” he says, “with a wall.” As the gospel states, “The day of the Lord comes as a thief in the night.” To avoid the response, “Why do you not choose death?” Job answers, “The Lord has surrounded it with a wall.” Its doors are closed. - "Commentary on Job 3.20–23"
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Job 3:24 For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
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Job 3:25 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
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Job 3:26 I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
From this, Job’s preparation against the adversary emerges. Even Paul, who possessed the hope and grace of the Spirit, was vigilant and fought the adversary, since he knew that for the holy the struggle “was not against enemies of blood and flesh but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil.” Our struggle is also against the archvillain himself, the devil, who prowls around “like a roaring lion … looking for someone to devour.” Even though Job was vigilant, the devil did not refrain from asking for permission to test him and to impose on him the burden he proceeds to place on him. Job’s difficult experience seems like God’s wrath, yet he knows that his sufferings are not the result of his sinfulness. For Job states, “I know that I shall be vindicated.” Even in other passages Scripture describes hardship as “wrath.” It is said, “You sent out your fury; it consumed them like stubble.” When we hear about God’s wrath, we do not consider it a condition of the soul similar to human emotions. Such an emotion cannot be sent, since it lives in the soul. The wrath of God, however, is sent, for “you sent out your fury,” that is, hardship. Hardship is imposed. Job calls that which has affected him as “wrath.” - "Commentary on Job 3.26"
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