Job 3:26 BSB — MannaFest

Job 3:26

I am not at ease or quiet; I have no rest, for trouble has come.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; But trouble cometh.

KJV

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

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Commentary

4 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

I was not in safety - If this verse be read interrogatively, it will give a good and easy sense: Was I not in safety? Had I not rest? Was I not in comfort? Yet trouble came. It is well known that, previously to this attack of Satan, Job was in great prosperity and peace. Mr. Good translates, I had no peace; yea, I had no rest. Yea, I had no respite, as the trouble came on; and refers the whole to the quick succession of the series of heavy evils by which he was tried.

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The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Quiet - I did not misbehave myself in prosperity, abusing it by presumption, and security, but I lived circumspectly, walking humbly with God, and working out my salvation with fear and trembling. Therefore in this sense also, his way was hid, he knew not why God contended with him.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

He knew so much of the vanity of the world, and the troubles to which, of course, he was born, that he was not in safety, neither had he rest then. That which made his grief now the more grievous was that he was not conscious to himself of any great degree either of negligence or security in the day of his prosperity, which might provoke God thus to chastise him.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

It was Job's folly and weakness to curse his day. We must say of it, This was his infirmity; but good men have sometimes failed in the exercise of those graces which they have been most eminent for, that we may understand that when they are said to be perfect it is meant that they were upright, not that they were sinless.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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.

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
לֹ֤א	lo'	not	H3808 →
שָׁלַ֨וְתִּי׀	sha.Lav.ti	I am at ease	H7951 →
וְלֹ֖א	ve.Lo'	and not	H3808 →
שָׁקַ֥טְתִּי	sha.Ka.ti	I am at peace	H8252 →
וְֽלֹא־	ve.lo'-	and not	H3808 →
נָ֗חְתִּי	Na.che.ti	I am at rest	H5117 →
וַיָּ֥בֹא	vai.Ya.vo'	and it has come	H935 →
רֹֽגֶז׃ פ	Ro.gez	turmoil	H7267 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 143:11
For the sake of Your name, O LORD, revive me. In Your righteousness, bring my soul out of trouble.
leads to
- Psalms 31:1
  In You, O LORD, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame; save me by Your righteousness.
- Ephesians 2:4–5
  But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,
- Psalms 71:2
  In Your justice, rescue and deliver me; incline Your ear and save me.
- Psalms 119:25
  My soul cleaves to the dust; revive me according to Your word.
Through
Job 27:9
Will God hear his cry when distress comes upon him?
leads to
- Jeremiah 14:12
  Although they may fast, I will not listen to their cry; although they may offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will finish them off by sword and…
- Isaiah 1:15
  When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.
- Proverbs 1:28
  Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; they will earnestly seek me, but will not find me.
- Micah 3:4
  Then they will cry out to the LORD, but He will not answer them. At that time He will hide His face from them because of the evil they have done.

About Job

Job Hears of His Misfortunes — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Job

Where the connections lead

The record, by era

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Job