Job 3

“After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.” Naming Job keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“And Job spake, and said,” Naming Job keeps the account rooted in particular people or places. Follow where the name returns and what changes around it.

“Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.” The line’s distinctive content terms include born, child, conceived. Its relationship to verses 2 and 4 shows what work it does in this passage.

“Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.” The verse names God rather than leaving the action without a source. Watch whether the next line continues, answers, or contrasts that action.

“Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.” The line’s distinctive content terms include blackness, cloud, darkness. Its relationship to verses 4 and 6 shows what work it does in this passage.

“As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into…” The line’s distinctive content terms include darkness, days, joined. Its relationship to verses 5 and 7 shows what work it does in this passage.

“Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.” The line’s distinctive content terms include joyful, night, solitary. Its relationship to verses 6 shows what work it does in this passage.

“Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.” The line’s distinctive content terms include curse, mourning, raise. Its relationship to verses 9 shows what work it does in this passage.

“Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of…” The line’s distinctive content terms include dark, dawning, light. Its relationship to verses 8 and 10 shows what work it does in this passage.

“Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.” This line supplies a reason, result, or conclusion. It should stay attached to the claim or action that gives it meaning.

“Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?” The question slows the passage down. Notice who is being pressed to answer, what the question assumes, and whether the next lines provide a response.

“Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?” The question slows the passage down. Notice who is being pressed to answer, what the question assumes, and whether the next lines provide a response.

“For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,” This line supplies a reason, result, or conclusion. It should stay attached to the claim or action that gives it meaning.

“With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;” The line’s distinctive content terms include built, counsellors, desolate. Its relationship to verses 13 shows what work it does in this passage.

“Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:” The line’s distinctive content terms include filled, gold, houses. Its relationship to verses 16 shows what work it does in this passage.

“Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.” The line’s distinctive content terms include birth, hidden, infants. Its relationship to verses 15 and 17 shows what work it does in this passage.

“There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.” The line’s distinctive content terms include cease, rest, troubling. Its relationship to verses 16 and 18 shows what work it does in this passage.

“There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.” The line’s distinctive content terms include hear, oppressor, prisoners. Its relationship to verses 17 and 19 shows what work it does in this passage.

“The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.” The line’s distinctive content terms include free, master, servant. Its relationship to verses 18 and 20 shows what work it does in this passage.

“Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;” This line supplies a reason, result, or conclusion. It should stay attached to the claim or action that gives it meaning.

“Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;” The line’s distinctive content terms include cometh, death, long. Its relationship to verses 20 shows what work it does in this passage.

“Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?” The question slows the passage down. Notice who is being pressed to answer, what the question assumes, and whether the next lines provide a response.

“Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?” The question slows the passage down. Notice who is being pressed to answer, what the question assumes, and whether the next lines provide a response.

“For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.” This line supplies a reason, result, or conclusion. It should stay attached to the claim or action that gives it meaning.

“For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.” This line supplies a reason, result, or conclusion. It should stay attached to the claim or action that gives it meaning.

“I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.” The line’s distinctive content terms include quiet, rest, safety. Its relationship to verses 25 shows what work it does in this passage.