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A Wish for Un-Creation
Commentators explain that Job's curse goes beyond simple frustration. By wishing for his birthday to be 'darkness' and for God not to 'seek' or 'regard' it, he is essentially asking for that day to be erased from existence, a reversal of God's creative act. This highlights the profound depth of his despair, wanting the day blotted from God's memory and care.
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Albert Barnes
On Job 3:4
18th Century
Theologian
Let that day be darkness – Let it not be day; or, oh, that it had not been day, that the sun had not risen, and that it had been night.
Charles Ellicott
On Job 3:4
19th Century
Bishop
Regard. —Literally, require, ask for, and so manifest care about. (Compare Deuteronomy 11:12.)
John Gill
On Job 3:4
17th Century
Pastor
Let that day be darkness
Not only dark, but darkness itself, extremely dark; and which is to be understood not figur…
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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…