Job 3
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Lutheran reading notes
In Job chapter 3, the wisdom literature continues to explore suffering, divine justice, and faithfulness amid trial. Lutheran interpretation often emphasizes humanity’s limitations and the need to rely on God's grace and promises. The chapter highlights the contrast between human striving and the faithfulness of God.
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After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
Job 3:1 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
2
And Job spake, and said, {spake: Heb. answered}
Job 3:2 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night {in which} it was said, There is a man child conceived.
Job 3:3 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
Job 3:4 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. {stain: or, challenge} {let the...: or, let them terrify it, as those who have a bitter day}
Job 3:5 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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. {let it not be...: or, let it not rejoice among the days}
Job 3:6 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
Job 3:7 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning. {their...: or, leviathan}
Job 3:8 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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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: {the dawning...: Heb. the eyelids of the morning}
Job 3:9 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Because it shut not up the doors of my {mother's} womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
Job 3:10 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Why died I not from the womb? {why} did I {not} give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
Job 3:11 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
Job 3:12 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
Job 3:13 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
Job 3:14 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
Job 3:15 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants {which} never saw light.
Job 3:16 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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There the wicked cease {from} troubling; and there the weary be at rest. {weary: Heb. wearied in strength}
Job 3:17 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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{There} the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
Job 3:18 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The small and great are there; and the servant {is} free from his master.
Job 3:19 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter {in} soul;
Job 3:20 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Which long for death, but it {cometh} not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; {long: Heb. wait}
Job 3:21 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Which rejoice exceedingly, {and} are glad, when they can find the grave?
Job 3:22 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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{Why is light given} to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
Job 3:23 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. {I eat: Heb. my meat}
Job 3:24 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. {the thing...: Heb. I feared a fear, and it came upon me}
Job 3:25 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
Job 3:26 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.