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Cursing the Day, Not God
Commentators explain that Job personifies the day and night of his birth, blaming them for allowing him to be born. Scholar John Gill suggests Job may be deliberately avoiding blaming God directly. This highlights a crucial distinction: Job laments his life and suffering, but he stops short of cursing God, the very thing Satan predicted he would do.
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Albert Barnes
On Job 3:10
18th Century
Theologian
Because it shut not up ... - That is, because the accursed day and night did not do it. Aben Ezra supposes that God is meant here, …
John Gill
On Job 3:10
17th Century
Pastor
Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother's] womb
Or "of my belly" F13 , or "womb"; which Aben Ezra …
Matthew Henry
On Job 3:1–10
17th Century
Minister
For seven days Job's friends sat by him in silence, without offering consolation: at the same time Satan assaulted his mind to shake his confidence…