Job 3:26 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁶I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.

Job 3:26 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 7:14
Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:
Psalms 143:11
Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name's sake: for thy righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble.
Job 27:9
Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Despair Despondency Discouragement

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 20-26)

Job, finding it to no purpose to wish either that he had not been born or had died as soon as he was born, here complains that his life was now continued and not cut off. When men are set on quarrelling there is no end of it; the corrupt heart will carry on the humour. Having cursed the day of his birth, here he courts the day of his death. The beginning of this strife and impatience is as the let…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 26)

26. I was not in safety ... yet trouble came--referring, not to his former state, but to the beginning of his troubles. From that time I had no rest, there was no intermission of sorrows. “And” (not, “yet”) a fresh trouble is coming, namely, my friends’ suspicion of my being a hypocrite. This gives the starting-point to the whole ensuing controversy.