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NASB | Job 3:25 "For what I fear comes upon me, And what I dread befalls me. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Job 3:25 "For the thing which I greatly fear comes upon me, And that of which I am afraid has come upon me. |
Bible Question: Job 3:25 What is the thing that Job feared the most? |
Bible Answer: Dear Curious: The context gives a clue to the thing Job greatly feared (Job 3:25). The beginning of Chapter 3 marks a change in Job's attitude from his patience shown in the discourse with his wife in Chapter 2. His wife, deriding him for holding on to his integrity, advised her husband to "Curse God and die!" (2:9). Job rebuked her, saying she spoke foolishness. As Chapter 3 opens, evidently Job has been suffering for a long time, although we don't know how long. Job's previous words of patience and trust are not evident in Chapter 3. Even though Job falls short of cursing God for his suffering and anguish, he nevertheless in this soliloquy is candid to admit his inntermost feelings, arguing that he would not have suffered so much had he not been conceived (3:3-10), or had he died at birth (3:11-19, or had he died immediately when his troubles began (3:20-26. ...... Job, plagued by suffering, now has come to view death as a deliverance from his misery. He leaves the reader with a strong implication that never being born is preferable to his wretched state which is -- so one may infer from Job's words -- one that Job conceives of as being forsaken by the Lord. Thus Job's fear does not center on a particular thing, but it is rather a more generic fear of prolonged suffering and anguish, of feeling forsaken, engendering the turmoil in his soul that he expresses vividly in 3:26: "I am not at ease, nor am I quiet; I have no rest, for trouble comes." --Hank |