1 Job curses the day and services of his birth.
13 The ease of death.
20 He complains of life, because of his anguish.

After. 1:22 2:10

opened. 35:16 Ps 39:2,3 106:33

cursed. 3 1:11 2:5,9 Jer 20:14,15

his day. That is, the day of his birth.

2 And Job spake, and said,

spake. Heb. answered. 2

3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.

Let the day. That is, as we say, 'Let it be blotted out of the calendar.'

10:18,19 Jer 15:10 20:14,15

4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.

darkness. Ex 10:22,23 Joe 2:2 Am 5:18 Mt 27:45 Ac 27:20 Re 16:10

God regard. De 11:12

5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

the shadow. 10:21,22 16:16 24:17 28:3 38:17 Ps 23:4 44:19 107:10,14 Isa 9:2 Jer 2:6 13:16 Am 5:8 Mt 4:16 Lu 1:79

stain it. or, challenge it. let a cloud. De 4:11 Eze 30:3 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 Am 8:10

6 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 joined unto the days. or, let it not rejoice among the days. 6

7 Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.

solitary. Isa 13:20-22 24:8 Jer 7:34 Re 18:22,23

8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.

who are ready. 2Ch 35:25 Jer 9:17,18 Am 5:16 Mt 11:17 Mr 5:38

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

9 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:

look for light. 30:26 Jer 8:15 13:16

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

10 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

it shut not. 10:18,19 Ge 20:18 29:31 1Sa 1:5 Ec 6:3-5 Jer 20:17

hid. 6:2,3 10:1 23:2 Ec 11:10

11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

died I. Ps 58:8 Jer 15:10 Ho 9:14

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

12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?

the knees. Ge 30:3 50:23 Isa 66:12 Eze 16:4,5

13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

then had I been at rest. Ec 6:3-5 9:10

14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which build desolate places for themselves;

kings. 30:23 1Ki 2:10 11:43 Ps 49:6-10,14 89:48 Ec 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.

15:28 Isa 5:8 Eze 26:20

15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

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.'

22:25 27:16 Nu 22:18 1Ki 10:27 Isa 2:7 Zep 1:18 Zec 9:3

16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

an hidden. Ps 58:8 1Co 15:8

17 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.

the wicked. 14:13 Ps 55:5-8 Mt 10:28 Lu 12:4 2Th 1:6,7 2Pe 2:8

the weary. Heb. the wearied in strength. at rest. Isa 57:1,2 Heb 4:9,11 Re 14:13

18 There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

they. 39:7 Ex 5:6-8,15-19 Jud 4:3 Isa 14:3,4

19 The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.

The small. 30:23 Ps 49:2,6-10 Ec 8:8 12:5,7 Lu 16:22,23 Heb 9:27

and the servant. Ps 49:14-20

20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;

Wherefore. 6:9 7:15,16 Jer 20:18

light. 16 33:28,30

the bitter. 7:15,16 1Sa 1:10 2Ki 4:27 Pr 31:6

21 Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

long. Heb. wait. Nu 11:15 1Ki 19:4 Jon 4:3,8 Re 9:6

dig. Pr 2:4

22 Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?

whose way. Isa 40:27

hedged in. 12:14 19:8 Ps 31:8 La 3:7,9 Ho 2:6

24 For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

my sighing. 7:19 Ps 80:5 102:9

I eat. Heb. my meat. my roarings. Ps 22:1,2 32:3 38:8 Isa 59:11 La 3:8

25 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.

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

26 I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.

yet trouble came. 27:9 Ps 143:11