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3:1-2 |
Job breaks the silence |
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3:3-10 |
Birth lamented |
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3:11-19 |
Infancy lamented |
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3:20-26 |
Manhood lamented |
"I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me. I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred. My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue" (Psa 39:1-3).
i) |
3:6 |
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to despair of his conception; |
ii) |
10:22 |
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to request death; |
iii) |
23:17 |
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to emphasise his confusion at God's dealings with
him; |
iv) |
28:3 |
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to describe the limit's of man's endeavours; and |
v) |
30:26 |
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to declare his personal frustrations. |
3:14 |
The kings and counsellors who built large buildings could just
as easily built ruins as the buildings mocked their splendour since in death
they are no better than slaves; |
3:15 |
The wealthy princes who could have filled their houses with
silver find no value for silver and gold in the grave; |
3:16 |
The middle point of Job's musings. It represents his ideal.
To be still-born would have been better than the foolishness of riches or the
torment of poverty; |
3:17 |
The "lawless" (Roth) can no longer afflict nor are the weary
worn down any further. Both are at rest; |
3:18 |
The prisoners (i.e. those in forced labour) will be at ease
("rest" AV - shaan - not the same as "rest" in 3:13,17) and their
taskmaster's (Exo 3:7) voice will no longer be heard; |
3:19 |
The summary. Social inequalities are evened up in the grave.
The two ends of the scale, the servant and the master, are brought together,
along with the great and the small, in the grave. |
"I cannot relax!
And I cannot settle! ("rest" AV - shaqat - "repose" Strong)
And I cannot rest!
And agitation keeps coming back!"
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