Job 3

Commentary

Job 3 is a chapter of lamentation and despair. Job is overwhelmed with grief and anguish, and he expresses his feelings in a powerful and poetic way. He begins by cursing the day of his birth, wishing that it had never happened. He wishes that he had died in the womb, or that he had been stillborn. He expresses his deep sorrow and anguish, and his sense of being forsaken by God. Job then turns his attention to the night of his birth, and he curses the darkness that accompanied it. He wishes that the night had been turned into day, and that the darkness had been replaced with light. He expresses his deep sense of despair and hopelessness, and his sense of being forsaken by God. Job then turns his attention to the day of his death, and he curses the day that will bring his end. He wishes that the day would never come, and that he would never have to face death. He expresses his deep sense of fear and dread, and his sense of being forsaken by God. Job's lamentation in this chapter is a powerful expression of his grief and anguish. He expresses his deep sense of despair and hopelessness, and his sense of being forsaken by God. His words are a reminder of the fragility of life, and the inevitability of death.