Job 3 · Verse 2

Job 3:2

And Job spake, and said,
Job 3:2, King James Version

Job 3:2 in other translations

BSBAnd this is what he said:
WEBJob answered:
ASVAnd Job answered and said:
YLTAnd Job answereth and saith: --
DARBYAnd Job answered and said,
BBEJob made answer and said,
WebsterAnd Job spoke, and said,

What does Job 3:2 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
2. spake--Hebrew, "answered," that is, not to any actual question that preceded, but to the question virtually involved in the case. His outburst is singularly wild and bold (Jr 20:14). To desire to die so as to be free from sin is a mark of grace; to desire to die so as to escape troubles is a mark of corruption. He was ill-fitted to die who was so unwilling to live. But his trials were greater, and his light less, than ours.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 3:1-10

For seven days Job's friends sat by him in silence, without offering consolidation: at the same time Satan assaulted his mind to shake his confidence, and to fill him with hard thoughts of God. The permission seems to have extended to this, as well as to torturing the body. Job was an especial type of Christ, whose inward sufferings, both in the garden and on the cross, were the most dreadful; and arose in a great…

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Job 3:2 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַיַּ֥עַןvai.Ya.'anand he answeredH6030
אִיּ֗וֹב'i.YovJobH347
וַיֹּאמַֽר\׃vai.yo.Marand he saidH559

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
spake. Heb. answered.
Jud 18:14

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Job 3:1

    After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.

  • Job 3:2

    And Job spake, and said,

  • Job 3:3

    Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.

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Job 3:2 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y exclamó Job, y dijo:
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et Job prit la parole et dit:
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und Hiob hob an und sprach:
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
et locutus est: