Job 3:11-24
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).
3:20 o Job equated light with life (33:30 p; see John 1:4 q; 8:12 r).
• Bitter might mean “short-tempered” (Judg 18:25 s), “enraged” (2 Sam 17:8 t), “anguish” (Job 7:11 u), “distress” (Prov 31:6 v), or “discontented” (1 Sam 1:10 w; 22:2 x).
3:21 y People in misery long for death with the desperation of those who dig for hidden treasure.
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