Chapter 3

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After Job 1:22, Job 2:10

opened Job 35:16; Ps 39:2-3, Ps 106:33

cursed Job 3:3, Job 1:11, Job 2:5, Job 2:9; Jer 20:14-15

his day That is, the day of his birth.


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spake Heb. answered, Judg 18:14


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Let the day That is, as we say, "Let it be blotted out of the calendar." Job 10:18-19; Jer 15:10, Jer 20:14-15


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darkness Exod 10:22-23; Joel 2:2; Amos 5:18; Matt 27:45; Acts 27:20; Rev 16:10

God regard Deut 11:12


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the shadow Job 10:21-22, Job 16:16, Job 24:17, Job 28:3, Job 38:17; Ps 23:4, Ps 44:19, Ps 107:10, Ps 107:14; Isa 9:2; Jer 2:6, Jer 13:16; Amos 5:8; Matt 4:16; Luke 1:79

stain it or, challenge it

let a cloud Deut 4:11; Ezek 30:3, Ezek 34:12; Joel 2:2; Heb 12:18

let the blackness or, let them terrify it, as those who have a bitter day, Jer 4:28; Amos 8:10


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let it not be joined unto the days or, let it not rejoice among the days


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solitary Isa 13:20-22, Isa 24:8; Jer 7:34; Rev 18:22-23


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who are ready 2Chr 35:25; Jer 9:17-18; Amos 5:16; Matt 11:17; Mark 5:38

their mourning or, a leviathan, Job 41:1, Job 41:10


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look for light Job 30:26; Jer 8:15, Jer 13:16

the dawning of the day Heb. the eye-lids of the morning, Job 41:18


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it shut not Job 10:18-19; Gen 20:18, Gen 29:31; 1Sam 1:5; Eccl 6:3-5; Jer 20:17

hid Job 6:2-3, Job 10:1, Job 23:2; Eccl 11:10


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died I Ps 58:8; Jer 15:10; Hos 9:14

when I came Ps 22:9-10, Ps 71:6, Ps 139:13-16; Isa 46:3


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the knees Gen 30:3, Gen 50:23; Isa 66:12; Ezek 16:4-5


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then had I been at rest Eccl 6:3-5, Eccl 9:10


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kings Job 30:23; 1Kgs 2:10, 1Kgs 11:43; Ps 49:6-10, Ps 49:14, Ps 89:48; Eccl 8:8; Isa 14:10-16; Ezek 27:18-32

which built Who erect splendid mausoleums, funeral monuments, etc. to keep their names from perishing, while their bodies are turned to corruption. Job 15:28; Isa 5:8; Ezek 26:20


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who filled their houses That is, "the covetous, whom nothing can satisfy," as the poet Saady has observed, "but the dust that fills his mouth, when laid in the grave." Job 22:25, Job 27:16; Num 22:18; 1Kgs 10:27; Isa 2:7; Zeph 1:18; Zech 9:3


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an hidden Ps 58:8; 1Cor 15:8


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the wicked Job 14:13; Ps 55:5-8; Matt 10:28; Luke 12:4; 2Thess 1:6-7; 2Pet 2:8

the weary Heb. the wearied in strength

at rest Isa 57:1-2; Heb 4:9, Heb 4:11; Rev 14:13


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they Job 39:7; Exod 5:6-8, Exod 5:15-19; Judg 4:3; Isa 14:3-4


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The small Job 30:23; Ps 49:2, Ps 49:6-10; Eccl 8:8, Eccl 12:5, Eccl 12:7; Luke 16:22-23; Heb 9:27

and the servant Ps 49:14-20


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Wherefore Job 6:9, Job 7:15-16; Jer 20:18

light Job 3:16, Job 33:28, Job 33:30

the bitter Job 7:15-16; 1Sam 1:10; 2Kgs 4:27; Prov 31:6


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long Heb. wait, Num 11:15; 1Kgs 19:4; Jonah 4:3, Jonah 4:8; Rev 9:6

dig Prov 2:4


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whose way Isa 40:27

hedged in Job 12:14, Job 19:8; Ps 31:8; Lam 3:7, Lam 3:9; Hos 2:6


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my sighing Job 7:19; Ps 80:5, Ps 102:9

I eat Heb. my meat

my roarings Ps 22:1-2, Ps 32:3, Ps 38:8; Isa 59:11; Lam 3:8


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the thing etc. Heb. I feared a fear and it came upon me, that which Job 1:5, Job 31:23


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yet trouble came Job 27:9; Ps 143:11


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