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Job 3 Bible study: Let the day perish
Job's last line is made of the words of the rest he pictures in 3:13-17. In Hebrew, 3:26's quiet is 3:13's, its rest is 3:13's and 3:17's, and its trouble is the troubling that ceases in 3:17: "neither do I have rest; but trouble comes" (3:26).
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“I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither do I have rest; but trouble comes.”
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“Job "answered" in 3:2, though no one had spoken a word to him.”
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He cursed the day
"After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth" (3:1) (tap cursed). Satan had said, "he will renounce you to your face" (1:11, 2:5), and Job's wife had said, "Renounce God, and die" (2:9). In Hebrew that renounce is barakh, the verb the WEB gives as blessed in "Blessed be the LORD’s name" (1:21). Job's word in 3:1 is another verb, qalal, and what he curses is the day: "Let the day perish in which I was born" (3:3) (tap perish). The chapter's other curses are other verbs again. "Let them curse it who curse the day" (3:8) (tap curse): in Hebrew the first curse is naqav and the second is arar. None of the chapter's curses is barakh, and none of them is said of God.
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The Hebrew word behind it
קָלַלqalalsay ka-LAL
Brown-Driver-Briggs gives its basic sense as "be slight, swift, trifling", and for the form used here, "curse (prop. make contemptible)". Strong's: "to be (causatively, make) light". "After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth" (3:1). It is not the verb behind the renounce of 1:11, 2:5 and 2:9, which is barakh. In Job the WEB gives this verb as cursed here and in "Their portion is cursed on the earth" (24:18), as swifter in "My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle" (7:6) and in 9:25, and once in Job's own answer to the LORD: "Behold, I am of small account" (40:4).
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Job 3 Bible study questions
- 1Job's friends sat with him seven days without a word (2:13), and then Job said all of this. What makes it hard to let someone say what they really feel without rushing to answer them?
- 2Job says, "For the thing which I fear comes on me" (3:25). When something you feared has actually happened, what helped you, or what do you wish had helped?
- 3Job ends, "neither do I have rest; but trouble comes" (3:26). Where do you tend to look for rest when you don't have any?
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