Chapter 3
I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
the man
1:12-14 Job 19:21 Psalms 71:20 88:7,15,16 Isaiah 53:3 Jeremiah 15:17,18 Jeremiah 20:14-18 38:6
his wrath
That is, the wrath of God.
He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
brought
53-55 2:1 Deuteronomy 28:29 Job 18:18 30:26 Isaiah 59:9 Jeremiah 13:16 Amos 5:18-20 Jude 1:6,13
Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.
2:4-7 Deuteronomy 29:20 Job 31:21 Isaiah 1:25 63:10
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
My flesh
Job 16:8,9 Psalms 31:9,10 32:3 38:2-8 102:3-5
he hath
Psalms 22:14 51:8 Isaiah 38:13 Jeremiah 50:17
He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
builded
gall
19 Psalms 69:21 Jeremiah 8:14 9:15 23:15
He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
in dark
He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
hedged
9 Job 3:23 19:8 Psalms 88:8 Jeremiah 38:6 Hosea 2:6
made
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
44 Job 19:7 30:20 Psalms 22:2 80:4 Habakkuk 1:2 Matthew 27:46
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
made
He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
unto
Job 10:16 Isaiah 38:13 Hosea 5:14 6:1 13:7,8 Amos 5:18-20
in secret
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
pulled
Job 16:12,13 Psalms 50:22 Jeremiah 5:6 51:20-22 Daniel 2:40-44 7:23 Micah 5:8 Hosea 6:1
he hath made
1:13 Job 16:7 Isaiah 3:26 Jeremiah 6:8 9:10,11 19:8 32:43 Matthew 23:38 Revelation 18:19
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
bent
Job 6:4 7:20 16:12,13 Psalms 7:12,13 38:2
He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
arrows
Heb. sons.
Deuteronomy 32:23 Job 6:4 41:28
I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
63 Nehemiah 4:2-4 Job 30:1-9 Psalms 22:6,7 35:15,16 44:13 69:11,12 Psalms 79:4 123:3,4 137:3 Jeremiah 20:7 48:27 Matthew 27:39-44 1 Corinthians 4:9-13
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
filled
19 Ruth 1:20 Job 9:18 Psalms 60:3 Isaiah 51:17-22 Jeremiah 9:15 23:15 Jeremiah 25:15-18,27
bitterness
Heb. bitternesses.
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
broken
gravel
Proverbs 20:17 Matthew 7:9 Luke 11:11
he hath
covered me with ashes
or, rolled me in the ashes.
Job 2:8 Jeremiah 6:26 Jonah 3:6
And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
thou
1:16 Psalms 119:155 Isaiah 38:17 54:10 59:11 Jeremiah 8:15 14:19 16:5 Zechariah 8:10
I forgat
Genesis 41:30 Job 7:7 Jeremiah 20:14-18
prosperity
Heb. good.
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
1 Samuel 27:1 Job 6:11 17:15 Psalms 31:22 116:11 Ezekiel 37:11
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
Remembering
or, Remember.
Nehemiah 9:32 Job 7:7 Psalms 89:47,50 132:1
the
My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
hath
humbled
Heb. bowed.
This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
recall to my mind
Heb. make to return to my heart.
therefore
24-29 Psalms 119:81 130:7 Habakkuk 2:3
It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
of
Ezra 9:8,9,13-15 Nehemiah 9:31 Psalms 78:38 106:45 Ezekiel 20:8,9,13,14,21 Ezekiel 20:22 Malachi 3:6
because
Psalms 77:8 86:15 Micah 7:18,19 Luke 1:50
They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
new
Psalms 30:5 Isaiah 33:2 Zephaniah 3:5
great
Exodus 34:6 Psalms 36:5 89:1,2,33 146:6 Titus 1:2 Hebrews 6:18 10:23
The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
my portion
Psalms 16:5 73:26 119:57 142:5 Jeremiah 10:16 51:19
therefore
21 1 Samuel 30:6 1 Chronicles 5:20 Job 13:15 Psalms 31:24 33:18 42:11 43:5 Psalms 62:8 84:12 130:7 Romans 15:12 1 Peter 1:21
The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
good
26 Genesis 49:18 Psalms 25:8 27:14 37:7,34 39:7 40:1-5 61:1,5 Psalms 130:5,6 Isaiah 25:9 30:18 40:31 64:4 Micah 7:7,8 Zephaniah 3:8 1 Thessalonians 1:10 James 5:7
to
1 Chronicles 28:9 2 Chronicles 15:2 19:3 30:19 31:21 Psalms 22:26 27:8 69:32 105:3 Psalms 119:2 Isaiah 26:9 55:6 Hosea 10:12
It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
good
Psalms 52:9 54:6 73:28 92:1 Galatians 4:18
hope
Hebrews 3:14 10:35 1 Peter 1:13
quietly
Genesis 49:18 Exodus 14:13 2 Chronicles 20:17 Psalms 37:7,34 119:166,174 130:5 Isaiah 30:7,15
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
bear
Psalms 90:12 94:12 119:71 Ecclesiastes 12:1 Matthew 11:29,30 Hebrews 12:5-12
He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.
2:10 Psalms 39:9 102:7 Jeremiah 15:17
He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
putteth
2 Chronicles 33:12 Job 40:4 42:5,6 Ezekiel 16:63 Romans 3:19
if
Joel 2:14 Jonah 3:9 Zephaniah 2:3 Luke 15:18,19 18:13
He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.
his
Job 16:10 Isaiah 50:6 Micah 5:1 Matthew 5:39 26:67 Luke 6:29 2 Corinthians 11:20
filled
For the Lord will not cast off for ever:
1 Samuel 12:22 Psalms 77:7 94:14 103:8-10 Isaiah 54:7-10 57:16 Jeremiah 31:37 Jeremiah 32:40 33:24 Micah 7:18 Romans 11:1-6
But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
22 Exodus 2:23 3:7 Judges 10:16 2 Kings 13:23 Psalms 30:5 78:38 103:11 Psalms 106:43-45 Jeremiah 31:20 Hosea 11:8 Luke 15:20
For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
afflict
Isaiah 28:21 Ezekiel 18:32 33:11 Hebrews 12:9,10
willingly
Heb. from his heart.
To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,
crush
Isaiah 51:22,23 Jeremiah 50:17,33,34 51:33-36
all
Psalms 69:33 79:11 102:20 Isaiah 14:17 49:9 Zechariah 9:11,12
To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.
the Lord
2 Samuel 11:27 Isaiah 59:15 Habakkuk 1:13
approveth
Heb. seeth.
Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?
saith
Psalms 33:9-11 Proverbs 16:9 19:21 21:30 Isaiah 46:10 Daniel 4:35 Romans 9:15 Ephesians 1:11 James 4:13-15
Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
Job 2:10 Psalms 75:7 Proverbs 29:26 Isaiah 45:7 Amos 3:6
Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
doth
22 Numbers 11:11 Proverbs 19:3 Isaiah 38:17-19
complain
or, murmur. a man.
Genesis 4:5-7,13,14 Leviticus 26:41,43 Numbers 16:41 17:12 Joshua 7:6-13 2 Samuel 6:7,8 2 Kings 3:13 6:32 Ezra 9:13 Job 11:6 Isaiah 51:20 Jonah 2:3,4 Jonah 4:8,9 Micah 7:9 Hebrews 12:5-12 Revelation 16:9
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
search
1 Chronicles 15:12,13 Job 11:13-15 34:31,32 Psalms 4:4 119:59 139:23,24 Ezekiel 18:28 Haggai 1:5-9 1 Corinthians 11:28,31 2 Corinthians 13:5
turn
Deuteronomy 4:30 2 Chronicles 30:6,9 Isaiah 55:7 Hosea 6:1 12:6 14:1-3 Joel 2:12,13 Zechariah 1:3,4 Acts 26:20
Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
lift
with
Psalms 28:2 63:4 141:2 1 Thessalonians 2:8
We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
transgressed
1:18 5:16 Nehemiah 9:26 Job 33:27,28 Jeremiah 3:13 Daniel 9:5-14 Luke 15:18,19
thou
2 Kings 24:4 Jeremiah 5:7,8 Ezekiel 24:13 Zechariah 1:5
Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
covered
persecuted
thou hast slain
2:2,17,21 2 Chronicles 36:16,17 Ezekiel 7:9 8:18 9:10
Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
covered
that
8 Psalms 80:4 Jeremiah 14:11 15:1 Zechariah 7:13
Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
as
14 2:15 4:14,15 Deuteronomy 28:13,37,44 1 Corinthians 4:13
All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
have
2:16 Exodus 11:7 Job 30:9-11 Psalms 22:6-8 44:13,14 79:4,10 Matthew 27:38-45
Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
Fear
Isaiah 24:17,18 51:19 Jeremiah 48:43,44 Luke 21:35
desolation
Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
2:11,18 Psalms 119:136 Jeremiah 4:19 9:1,18 13:17 Romans 9:1-3
Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
and
1:16 Psalms 77:2 Jeremiah 14:17
Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.
2:20 5:1 Psalms 80:14-16 102:19,20 Isaiah 62:6,7 63:15 64:1 Daniel 9:16-19
Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
eye
Genesis 44:34 1 Samuel 30:3,4 Jeremiah 4:19-21 14:18 Luke 19:41-44
mine heart
Heb. my soul. because of all. or, more than all. the daughters.
1:18 2:21 5:11 Jeremiah 11:22 14:16 19:9
Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
chased
without
1 Samuel 24:10-15 25:28,29 26:18-20 Psalms 35:7,19 69:4 109:3 119:161 Jeremiah 37:18 John 15:25
They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
cut
and
Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
Waters
Psalms 18:4 69:1,2,15 124:4,5 Jonah 2:3-5
I said
18 Job 17:11-16 Psalms 31:22 Isaiah 38:10-13 Ezekiel 37:11 2 Corinthians 1:8-10
I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
2 Chronicles 33:11,12 Psalms 18:5,6 40:1,2 69:13-18 116:3,4 130:1,2 Psalms 142:3-7 Jeremiah 38:6 Jonah 2:2-4 Acts 16:24-28
Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
hast
2 Chronicles 33:13,19 Job 34:28 Psalms 3:4 6:8,9 34:6 66:19 116:1,2 Isaiah 38:5
hide
Psalms 55:1 88:13,14 Romans 8:26
Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.
drewest
Psalms 69:18 145:18 Isaiah 58:9 James 4:8
thou saidst
Isaiah 41:10,14 43:1,2 Jeremiah 1:17 Acts 18:9 27:24 Revelation 1:17 2:10
O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.
thou hast pleaded
1 Samuel 25:39 Psalms 35:1 Jeremiah 51:36
thou hast redeemed
Genesis 48:16 Psalms 34:22 71:23 103:4
O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
thou hast
Jeremiah 11:19-21 15:10 18:18-23 20:7-10 37:1-38
judge
Genesis 31:42 Psalms 9:4 26:1 35:1,23 43:1 1 Peter 2:23
Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.
59 Psalms 10:14 Jeremiah 11:19,20
Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;
30 5:1 Psalms 74:18 89:50 Zephaniah 2:8
The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
lips
Psalms 59:7,12 140:3 Ezekiel 36:3
and
Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.
their sitting
I am
Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
Psalms 28:4 Jeremiah 11:20 50:29 2 Timothy 4:14 Revelation 6:10 18:6
Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.
sorrow
or, obstinacy.
thy
Deuteronomy 27:15-26 Psalms 109:17,18 1 Corinthians 16:22
Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.
Persecute
under
Deuteronomy 7:24 25:19 29:20 2 Kings 14:27 Jeremiah 10:11