Posts with the tag “job-3”

After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. (3:1)After seven days of saintly silence, seven days of commendatory restraint and of “not sinning by anything he said” (2:10), we may...  Read More

“May the day of my birth perish,  and the night it was said, ‘A boy is born!’  That day—may it turn to darkness;  may God above not care about it.” (JOB 3:3-4) However we may try to sympathize with an...  Read More

“Why is light given to those in misery,  and life to the bitter of soul?” (3:20) Many commentators on Job have felt that the sweeping change that comes over the man in Chapter 3, from radiant saintlin...  Read More