INTRODUCTION:

(Deuteronomy 4:2 [KJV])
Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.

(Proverbs 30:5, 6 [KJV])
Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

(Isaiah 28:10 [KJV])
For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

(Isaiah 28:13 [KJV])
But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

(2 Peter 1:20 [KJV])
Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.

All of the studies found here, whether book studies or topical studies, are done with research in mainly two things: The KING JAMES BIBLE and a plain old, 1828 Webster's Dictionary. Why? Outside of actually studying secular and Jewish history recorded in the Word of God and in any ancient records from many, which records support it, plus archaeology, one needs nothing more. You do not need foreign, dead languages that no one speaks, nor lexicons, nor concordances, nor commentaries, because they differ not only with one another and with the KING JAMES BIBLE, they create division, confusion, debate, and unbelief, apostasy, and a falling away from God Himself. We do not need them. That Word of God, written and preserved for us in our own language, is supposed to be enough, like the Old Testament was for the Jews, and as the New Testament was for the early Christians in Greek, Latin, Italian, Spanish, German, etc.

There are studies within as tangents on words, subjects found within the two testaments, as to broaden the scope of the study, to learn more, deeper truths. This is not an intellectual site with PhDs, theologians, and no worldly wisdom.. Check everything out, everything. Not just here, but with everything you read and see and hear. Be Bereans:

(Acts 17:11 [KJV])
These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

(1 Thessalonians 2:13 [KJV])
For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.

Always research for yourself, use all of the context, and never privately interpret!

Introduction/Start of study

Job Chapter 3

THE BOOK OF JOB, Chapter 3

The outline of the ramblings of Job's friends:

Eliphaz: Chapters 4-5, 15, 22 (total 4 chapters)
Bildad:Chapters 8, 18, 25 (total 3 chapters)
ZopharChapters 11, 20 (total two chapters)

The responses by Elihu

Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite Chapter 32-37 (total six chapters)

Job responses: Chapters 3, 6-7, 9, 12-14, 16-17, 19, 23-24, 26-31 (total 19 chapters)

The Answer from the LORD Chapters 38-41 (total 4 chapters)

Summary of chapter by chapter conversations:

Chapter 1-God and the enemyChapter 22-Eliphaz
Chapter 2- God and the enemyChapter 23-Job
Chapter 3-JobChapter 24-Job
Chapter 4-EliphazChapter 25-Bildad
Chapter 5-EliphazChapter 26-Job
Chapter 6-JobChapter 27-Job
Chapter 7-JobChapter 28-Job
Chapter 8-BildadChapter 29-Job
Chapter 9-JobChapter 30-Job
Chapter 10-JobChapter 31-Job
Chapter 11-ZopharChapter 32-Elihu
Chapter 12-JobChapter 33-Elihu
Chapter 13-JobChapter 34-Elihu
Chapter 14-JobChapter 35-Elihu
Chapter 15-EliphazChapter 36-Elihu
Chapter 16-JobChapter 37-Elihu
Chapter 17-JobChapter 38-The LORD to Job
Chapter 18-BildadChapter 39- The LORD to Job
Chapter 19-JobChapter 40- The LORD to Job
Chapter 20-ZopharChapter 41-The LORD to Job
Chapter 21-JobChapter 42- The LORD to Eliphaz, Zophar, Bildad, Job

Job Chapter 3

(2 Corinthians 5:4 [KJV])
For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.

(Job 3:1 [KJV])
After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.

INTEG'RITY, n. [L. integritas, from integer.]
  1. Wholeness; entirety; unbroken state. The constitution of the U.S. states guaranties to each state the integrity of its territories. The contracting parties guarantied the integrity of the empire.
  2. The entire, unimpaired state of any thing, particularly of the mind; moral soundness or purity; incorruptness; uprightness; honesty. Integrity comprehends the whole moral character, but has a special reference to uprightness in mutual dealings, transfers of property,and agencies for others. The moral grandeur of independent integrity is the sublimest thing in nature, before which the pomp of eastern magnificence and the splendor of conquest are odious as well as perishable.
  3. Purity; genuine, unadulterated, unimpaired state; as the integrity of language.
  4. Who is controlling Job's wife? The enemy said, "he will curse thee to thy face" and Job's wife wants him to do just that (Job 2:5)

(Job 3:2-3 [KJV])
And Job spake, and said, Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.

(Job 3:4 [KJV])
Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.

(Job 3:5 [KJV])
Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
Let it be the worst kind of devastating day. Blackness of day is really bad weather _________________________________________

The Shadow of Death

9 times in Job
4 times in the Psalms
1 times in Isaiah
2 times in Jeremiah
1 times in Amos
1 times in Matthew
1 time in Luke

Webster's: Shadow of death - terrible darkness, trouble or death.

(Job 10:21-22 [KJV])
Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

(Job 12:22 [KJV])
He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.

(Job 16:16 [KJV])
My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

(Job 24:17 [KJV])
For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

(Job 28:3 [KJV])
He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.

(Job 34:22 [KJV])
There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

(Job 38:17 [KJV])
Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?

Psalm 23:4 [KJV])
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

(Psalm 44:19 [KJV])
Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

Psalm 107:10 [KJV])
Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;

(Psalm 107:14 [KJV])
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.

(Isaiah 9:2 [KJV])
The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

(Jeremiah 2:6 [KJV])
Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?

(Jeremiah 13:16 [KJV])
Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.

(Amos 5:8 [KJV])
Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:

(Matthew 4:16 [KJV])
The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.

(Luke 1:79 [KJV])
To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.

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(Job 16:16 [KJV])
My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

(Job 24:17 [KJV])
For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

(Job 28:3 [KJV])
He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.

(Job 34:22 [KJV])
There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

(Job 38:17 [KJV])
Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?

(Job 3:6 [KJV])
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 number of the months.

(Job 3:7 [KJV])
Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.

The Jews at after the time of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses and Aaron, had a tremendously organized system of religion and were politically connected. Further in their history, they were waiting on the Messiah, not to die for their sins, but to remove the yoke of Rome from their necks only. They did not want the Kingdom of God, but the kingdom of themselves. They saw and acknowledged that Jesus was performing miracles (signs and wonders); they would have heard that Jesus was miraculously born of a virgin.

(2 Timothy 3:5)
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

(Isaiah 35:4-6)
Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you. Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.

(Job 3:8 [KJV])
Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.

(Job 3:9-10 [KJV])
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 day: Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

(Job 3:11-12 [KJV])
Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?

(Job 3:13-14 [KJV])
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;

THE VANITY OF EARTHLY RICHES

(2 Peter 3:10-12 [KJV])
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?

HEAVEN, REST, PEACE, BLISS, LIGHT, ETERNALLY

(Luke 23:42-43 [KJV])
And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.

HELL, NO REST, NO PEACE, NO LIGHT, NO HOPE, ETERNALLY-NO RICHES!

(Mark 9:43-46 [KJV])
And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

(Job 3:15-16 [KJV])
Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

(Job 3:17 [KJV])
There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.

Matthew 11:28-30
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

(Job 3:18 [KJV])
There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

(Job 3:19 [KJV])
The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.

(Job 3:20-22 [KJV])
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

(2 Timothy 3:12 [KJV])
Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

(Job 3:23 [KJV])
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?

(Job 3:24 [KJV])
For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

(Job 3:25-26 [KJV])
For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.

Job Chapter 4

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