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Job 3:1–42:6 Dialogue: Job, His Suffering, and His Standing before God. Between the brief narrative sections of the prologue (1:1–2:13) and epilogue (42:7–17), the large central section of the book is dialogue in poetic form. It focuses on the question of what Job’s suffering reveals both about him and about God’s governing of the world.
3:1–26 Job: Despair for the Day of His Birth. Job is mystified by his current circumstances. He wonders whether he would have been better off in the darkness of never being born rather than having the light of life result in such suffering and grief. Throughout the dialogue with Job’s friends, darkness and light will refer to death and life. It will also symbolize what is hidden vs. what is revealed.
Job 3:1–2 Job cursed the day of his birth because it began the path of his life, which had led to his present distress.
Job 3:3–10 In skillfully crafted poetry, Job says he wishes that he had never been born.
Job 3:8 Elements of ancient myth are sometimes used metaphorically in Scripture, often in images of God’s power or authority (see 26:12). Leviathan. An ancient symbol of chaos (see note on Ps. 74:14).
Job 3:13–19 Job describes death as rest from the toil of life. He pictures its effect on people both high and low in society. He wishes he had joined those who were already in this state of rest rather than being born. Job refers to the kings and princes who labored to obtain wealth and build cities but now lay without them in death.
Job 3:20–26 The final sequence of “why” questions reflects Job’s current miserable state.
Job 3:23 Satan had argued that Job was upright only because God had put a “hedge” of blessing around him (1:10). Here, Job says that his suffering makes him one whom God has hedged in.
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