Job 3:11-19
Summary for Job 3:11-24: 3:11-24 a Job’s language turns from curse to lamentation. Job alternates between repugnance for life and a romance with death. Seven times, Job laments his situation by asking why (3:11 b, 12 c, 16 d, 20 e, 23 f; see Pss 10:1 g; 22:1 h; Jer 20:18 i; Lam 5:20 j).3:14 k The dead were thought to continue their identities and social status after death. Perhaps Job wanted the world’s kings and prime ministers to acknowledge his own princely status (1:3 l).
3:15 m rich in gold, whose palaces were filled with silver: This might refer to treasure-filled tombs, but it more likely refers to the futile hoarding of wealth that ends in death (as in 3:14 n).
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