Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge: Job: Job Chapter 3
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, by R.A. Torrey, [ca. 1880]
Overview
Job 3:1, Job curses the day and services of his birth; Job 3:13, The ease of death; Job 3:20, He complains of life, because of his anguish.
opened: Job 35:16; Psa 39:2, Psa 39:3, Psa 106:33
cursed: Job 3:3, Job 1:11, Job 2:5, Job 2:9; Jer 20:14, Jer 20:15
his day: That is, the day of his birth.
spake: Heb. answered, Jdg 18:14
Let the day: That is, as we say, "Let it be blotted out of the calendar." Job 10:18, Job 10:19; Jer 15:10, Jer 20:14, Jer 20:15
darkness: Exo 10:22, Exo 10:23; Joe 2:2; Amo 5:18; Mat 27:45; Act 27:20; Rev 16:10
God regard: Deu 11:12
the shadow: Job 10:21, Job 10:22, Job 16:16, Job 24:17, Job 28:3, Job 38:17; Psa 23:4, Psa 44:19, Psa 107:10, Psa 107:14; Isa 9:2; Jer 2:6, Jer 13:16; Amo 5:8; Mat 4:16; Luk 1:79
stain it: or, challenge it
let a cloud: Deu 4:11; Eze 30:3, Eze 34:12; Joe 2:2; Heb 12:18
let the blackness: or, let them terrify it, as those who have a bitter day, Jer 4:28; Amo 8:10
let it not be joined unto the days: or, let it not rejoice among the days
solitary: Isa 13:20-22, Isa 24:8; Jer 7:34; Rev 18:22, Rev 18:23
who are ready: Ch2 35:25; Jer 9:17, Jer 9:18; Amo 5:16; Mat 11:17; Mar 5:38
their mourning: or, a leviathan, Job 41:1, Job 41:10
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
it shut not: Job 10:18, Job 10:19; Gen 20:18, Gen 29:31; Sa1 1:5; Ecc 6:3-5; Jer 20:17
hid: Job 6:2, Job 6:3, Job 10:1, Job 23:2; Ecc 11:10
died I: Psa 58:8; Jer 15:10; Hos 9:14
when I came: Psa 22:9, Psa 22:10, Psa 71:6, Psa 139:13-16; Isa 46:3
the knees: Gen 30:3, Gen 50:23; Isa 66:12; Eze 16:4, Eze 16:5
then had I been at rest: Ecc 6:3-5, Ecc 9:10
kings: Job 30:23; Kg1 2:10, Kg1 11:43; Psa 49:6-10, Psa 49:14, Psa 89:48; Ecc 8:8; Isa 14:10-16; Eze 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; Eze 26:20
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; Kg1 10:27; Isa 2:7; Zep 1:18; Zac 9:3
the wicked: Job 14:13; Psa 55:5-8; Mat 10:28; Luk 12:4; Th2 1:6, Th2 1:7; Pe2 2:8
the weary: Heb. the wearied in strength
at rest: Isa 57:1, Isa 57:2; Heb 4:9, Heb 4:11; Rev 14:13
they: Job 39:7; Exo 5:6-8, Exo 5:15-19; Jdg 4:3; Isa 14:3, Isa 14:4
The small: Job 30:23; Psa 49:2, Psa 49:6-10; Ecc 8:8, Ecc 12:5, Ecc 12:7; Luk 16:22, Luk 16:23; Heb 9:27
and the servant: Psa 49:14-20
Wherefore: Job 6:9, Job 7:15, Job 7:16; Jer 20:18
light: Job 3:16, Job 33:28, Job 33:30
the bitter: Job 7:15, Job 7:16; Sa1 1:10; Kg2 4:27; Pro 31:6
long: Heb. wait, Num 11:15; Kg1 19:4; Jon 4:3, Jon 4:8; Rev 9:6
dig: Pro 2:4
whose way: Isa 40:27
hedged in: Job 12:14, Job 19:8; Psa 31:8; Lam 3:7, Lam 3:9; Hos 2:6
my sighing: Job 7:19; Psa 80:5, Psa 102:9
I eat: Heb. my meat
my roarings: Psa 22:1, Psa 22:2, Psa 32:3, Psa 38:8; Isa 59:11; Lam 3:8
the thing: etc. Heb. I feared a fear and it came upon me, that which Job 1:5, Job 31:23
yet trouble came: Job 27:9; Psa 143:11