Job 3:15-25

15 aut cum principibus qui possident aurum et replent domos suas argento

16 aut sicut abortivum absconditum non subsisterem vel qui concepti non viderunt lucem

17 ibi impii cessaverunt a tumultu et ibi requieverunt fessi robore

18 et quondam vincti pariter sine molestia non audierunt vocem exactoris

19 parvus et magnus ibi sunt et servus liber a domino suo

20 quare data est misero lux et vita his qui in amaritudine animae sunt

21 qui expectant mortem et non venit quasi effodientes thesaurum

22 gaudentque vehementer cum invenerint sepulchrum

23 viro cuius abscondita est via et circumdedit eum Deus tenebris

24 antequam comedam suspiro et quasi inundantes aquae sic rugitus meus

25 quia timor quem timebam evenit mihi et quod verebar accidit

Job 3:15-25 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOB 3

In this chapter we have an account of Job's cursing the day of his birth, and the night of his conception; Job 3:1-3; first the day, to which he wishes the most extreme darkness, Job 3:4,5; then the night, to which he wishes the same and that it might be destitute of all joy, and be cursed by others as well as by himself, Job 3:6-9; The reasons follow, because it did not prevent his coming into the world, and because he died not on it, Job 3:10-12; which would, as he judged, have been an happiness to him; and this he illustrates by the still and quiet state of the dead, the company they are with, and their freedom from all trouble, oppression, and bondage, Job 3:13-19; but however, since it was otherwise with him, he desires his life might not be prolonged, and expostulates about the continuance of it, Job 3:20-23; and this by reason of his present troubles, which were many and great, and came upon him as he feared they would, and which had made him uneasy in his prosperity, Job 3:24-26.