
Text -- Job 3:25 (NET)




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Wesley -> Job 3:25
Wesley: Job 3:25 - -- Even in the time of my prosperity, I was full of fears, considering the variety of God's providences, the changeableness of this vain world, God's jus...
Even in the time of my prosperity, I was full of fears, considering the variety of God's providences, the changeableness of this vain world, God's justice, and the sinfulness of all mankind. And these fears of mine, were not in vain, but are justified by my present calamities.
JFB: Job 3:25 - -- In the beginning of his trials, when he heard of the loss of one blessing, he feared the loss of another; and when he heard of the loss of that, he fe...
In the beginning of his trials, when he heard of the loss of one blessing, he feared the loss of another; and when he heard of the loss of that, he feared the loss of a third.

JFB: Job 3:25 - -- Namely, the ill opinion of his friends, as though he were a hypocrite on account of his trials.
Namely, the ill opinion of his friends, as though he were a hypocrite on account of his trials.
Clarke -> Job 3:25
Clarke: Job 3:25 - -- For the thing which I greatly reared - Literally, the fear that I feared; or, I feared a fear, as in the margin. While I was in prosperity I thought...
For the thing which I greatly reared - Literally, the fear that I feared; or, I feared a fear, as in the margin. While I was in prosperity I thought adversity might come, and I had a dread of it. I feared the loss of my family and my property; and both have occurred. I was not lifted up: I knew that what I possessed I had from Divine Providence, and that he who gave might take away. I am not stripped of my all as a punishment for my self-confidence.
Defender -> Job 3:25
Defender: Job 3:25 - -- Job confesses that, even during his former days of prosperity and esteem, he had realized that things could change. God may bless a righteous man with...
Job confesses that, even during his former days of prosperity and esteem, he had realized that things could change. God may bless a righteous man with prosperity, but it is all of grace. No man - not even righteous Job - deserves God's favor, for "all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God" (Rom 3:23). Job realized he was innately a sinner, and offered sacrifices to cover his sins, as God had instructed, but he still realized God had every right to withhold His blessings."
TSK -> Job 3:25

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Barnes -> Job 3:25
Barnes: Job 3:25 - -- For the thing which I greatly feared - Margin, As in the Hebrew "I feared a fear, and it came upon me."This verse, with the following, has rece...
For the thing which I greatly feared - Margin, As in the Hebrew "I feared a fear, and it came upon me."This verse, with the following, has received a considerable variety of exposition. Many have understood it as referring to his whole course of life, and suppose that Job meant to say that he was always apprehensive of some great calamity, such as that which had now come upon him, and that in the time of his highest prosperity be had lived in continual alarm lest his property should be taken. away, and lest he should be reduced to penury and suffering. This is the opinion of Drusius and Codurcus. In reply to this, Schultens has remarked, that such a supposition is contrary to all probability; that there was no reason to apprehend that such calamities as he now suffered, would come upon him; that they were so unusual that they could not have been anticipated; and that, thercfore, the alarm here spoken of, could not refer to the general tenor of his life.
That seems to have been happy and calm, and perhaps, if anything, too tranquil and secure. Most interpreters suppose that it refers to the state in which he was "during"his trial, and that it is designed to describe the rapid succession of his woes. Such is the interpretation of Rosenmuller, Schultens, Drs. Good, Noyes, Gill, and others. According to this, it means that his calamities came on him in quick succession. He had no time after one calamity to become composed before another came. When he heard of one misfortune, he naturally dreaded another, and they came on with overwhelming rapidity. If this be the correct interpretation, it means that the source of his lamentation is not merely the greatness of his losses and his trials considered in the "aggregate,"but the extraordinary rapidity with which they succeeded each other, thus rendering them much more difficult to be borne; see Job 1: He apprehended calamity, and it came suddenly.
When one part of his property was taken, he had deep apprehensions respecting the rest; when all his property was seized or destroyed, he had alarm about his children; when the report came that they were dead, he feared some other affliction still. The sentiment is in accordance with human nature, that when we are visited with severe calamity in one form, we naturally dread it in another. The mind becomes exquisitely sensitive. The affections cluster around the objects of attachment which are left, and they become dear to us. When one child is taken away, our affections cling more closely to the one which survives, and any little illness alarms us, and the value of one object of affection is more and more increased - like the Sybil’ s leaves - as another is removed. It is an instinct of our nature, too, to apprehend calamity in quick succession when one comes "Misfortunes seldom come alone;"and when we suffer the loss of one endeared object, we instinctively feel that there may be a succession of blows that will remove all our comforts from us. Such seems to have been the apprehension of Job.
Poole -> Job 3:25
Poole: Job 3:25 - -- This is another reason why he is weary of his life, and why he repents that ever he was born, because he never enjoyed any solid and secure comfort....
This is another reason why he is weary of his life, and why he repents that ever he was born, because he never enjoyed any solid and secure comfort.
The thing which I greatly feared is come upon me . Heb. I feared a fear , (i.e. a danger or mischief in one kind or other, the act being here put for the object, as joy and love are oft put for the things rejoiced in, or loved, and here fear for the thing feared. Or, I feared with fear , i.e. I feared greatly ,) and it came . Even in the time of my peace and prosperity I was full of fears, considering the variety of God’ s providences, the course and changeableness of this vain world, the infirmities and contingencies of human nature and life, God’ s justice, and the sinfulness of all mankind. And these fears of mine were not vain, but are justified by my present calamities. So that I have never enjoyed any sound tranquillity since I was born; and therefore it hath not been worth my while to live, since all my days have been evil, and full of vexation and torment, either by the fear of miseries, or by the sufferance of them.
Haydock -> Job 3:25
Haydock: Job 3:25 - -- Fear. In prosperity he feared the assaults of pride. Now he is in danger of yielding to impatience and despair. (Calmet)
Fear. In prosperity he feared the assaults of pride. Now he is in danger of yielding to impatience and despair. (Calmet)
Gill -> Job 3:25
Gill: Job 3:25 - -- For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me,.... Some refer this to his fears about his children, lest they should sin and offend God, and br...
For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me,.... Some refer this to his fears about his children, lest they should sin and offend God, and bring down his judgments on them, and now what he feared was come to pass, Job 1:5; others take in all his sorrows and troubles; which, through the changeableness of the world, and the uncertainty of all things in it, and the various providences of God, he feared would come upon him at one time or another; and this he mentions to justify his expostulation, why light and life should be continued to such a man, who, by reason of his fear and anxiety of mind, never had any pleasure in his greatest prosperity, destruction from the Almighty being a terror to him; Job 31:23; but I think it is not reasonable to suppose that a man of Job's faith in God, and trust in him, should indulge such fears to such a degree; nor indeed that he could ever entertain such a thought in him, nor even surmise that such shocking calamities and distresses should come upon him as did: but this is to be understood not of his former life, in prosperity, but of the beginning of his afflictions; when he heard of the loss of one part of his substance, he was immediately possessed with a fear of losing another; and when he heard of that, he feared the loss of a third, and even of all; then of his children, and next of his health:
and that which I was afraid of is come unto me: which designs the same, in other words, or a new affliction; and particularly the ill opinion his friends had of him; he feared that through these uncommon afflictions he should be reckoned an ungodly man, an hypocrite; and as he feared, so it was; this he perceived by the silence of his friends, they not speaking one word of comfort to him; and by their looks at him, and the whole of their behaviour to him.

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NET Notes: Job 3:25 The final verb is יָבֹא (yavo’, “has come”). It appears to be an imperfect, but since it is parallel t...
Geneva Bible -> Job 3:25
Geneva Bible: Job 3:25 For the thing which I greatly ( p ) feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
( p ) In my prosperity I looked for a fal...

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TSK Synopsis -> Job 3:1-26
TSK Synopsis: Job 3:1-26 - --1 Job curses the day and services of his birth.13 The ease of death.20 He complains of life, because of his anguish.
MHCC -> Job 3:20-26
MHCC: Job 3:20-26 - --Job was like a man who had lost his way, and had no prospect of escape, or hope of better times. But surely he was in an ill frame for death when so u...
Matthew Henry -> Job 3:20-26
Matthew Henry: Job 3:20-26 - -- Job, finding it to no purpose to wish either that he had not been born or had died as soon as he was born, here complains that his life was now cont...
Keil-Delitzsch -> Job 3:24-26
Keil-Delitzsch: Job 3:24-26 - --
24 For instead of my food my sighing cometh,
And my roarings pour themselves forth as water.
25 For I fear something terrible, and it cometh upon ...
Constable -> Job 3:1-26; Job 3:20-26
Constable: Job 3:1-26 - --A. Job's Personal Lament ch. 3
The poetic body to the book begins with a soliloquy in which Job cursed t...
