JOB 3:2 Parallel Verse View

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BrLXX καὶ κατηράσατο τὴν ἡμέραν αὐτοῦ, λέγων,
(kai kataʸrasato taʸn haʸmeran autou, legōn, )

OEB day, and thus he began:

WEBBE Job answered:

WMBB (Same as above)

NET Job spoke up and said:

LSV And Job answers and says:

FBV He said,

T4T He said,

LEB Thus[fn] Job spoke up[fn] and said,

3:2 Hebrew “And”

3:2 Literally “answered”

BBE Job made answer and said,

Moff No Moff JOB book available

JPS And Job spoke, and said:

ASV And Job answered and said:

DRA And he said:

YLT And Job answereth and saith: —

Drby And Job answered and said,

RV And Job answered and said:

Wbstr And Job spoke, and said,

KJB-1769 And Job spake, and said,[fn]

3.2 spake: Heb. answered

KJB-1611 And Iob [fn]spake, and said,
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above apart from footnotes)

3:2 Hebr. answered.

Bshps And Iob aunswered, and sayde:
(And Yob answered, and said:)

Gnva And Iob cryed out, and sayd,
(And Yob cried out, and said, )

Cvdl and sayde:
(and said:)

Wycl and curside his dai, and seide, Perische the dai in which Y was borun,
(and curside his day, and said, Perische the day in which I was born,)

Luth Und Hiob sprach:
(And Hiob spoke:)

ClVg et locutus est:
(and spoke it_is: )

TTN Tyndale Theme Notes:

Complaints

The Bible generally depicts complaining as wrong. For example, God judged the Israelites for grumbling about their hardships in the wilderness (Num 14:27-37). Job complained mightily and earned God’s rebuke for it, yet God ultimately confirmed Job’s righteousness and rejected those who tried to stop him from complaining (Job 42:7-8).

Job’s fundamental complaint was that God did not give him a fair hearing to demonstrate his innocence. Job’s friends attacked him for trying to vindicate himself, but God upheld Job’s innocence. In a gracious but firm act of self-revelation, God rebuked Job for his overreaching self-defense and implied criticism of God’s fairness. God shifted Job’s focus away from his troubles and toward God himself (Job 38–41).

Scripture admonishes us to rejoice and give thanks in all situations (Eph 5:20; Phil 4:4; 1 Thes 5:16-18). It also calls us to endure through suffering and to persist in prayer (Jas 5:10-18). If we do want to complain in prayer, we should follow the pattern of the psalms, which lead us past ourselves and back to God (see, e.g., Ps 13). Job’s positive example (Jas 5:11) is not so much in how he responded to his troubles or to his comforters but in how he responded to God (Job 40:3-5; 42:1-6). In the midst of difficult and confusing situations that may precipitate a desire to complain, we can still acknowledge the sovereignty and goodness of God.

Passages for Further Study

Gen 4:13-14; Exod 16:2-18; Num 14:27-37; 1 Kgs 19:3-18; Job 3:1-26; 6:1–7:21; Pss 38; 39; 44; 73; Jer 20:14-18; Jon 4:1-11; Matt 27:46; John 6:41-59; 1 Cor 10:1-10; Eph 5:20; Phil 2:14-15; Jas 5:9-11

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / doublet

וַ⁠יַּ֥עַן אִיּ֗וֹב וַ⁠יֹּאמַֽר

and,said ʼIyyōⱱ/(Job) and,said

See the discussion of this expression in the General Introduction to Job. In this case, Job is responding not to something that someone else said but to all that has happened to him. Alternate translation: “In response to all that had happened to him, Job said”

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