Job 3:2-3

  • Cultural Adaptation

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    And Job said, “May the day on which I was to be born perish, as well as the night which said, ‘A boy is conceived.’”  Job 3:2-3  NASB Boy – The Hebraic idea of a person encompasses all of that person’s life.  This includes all the relationships, connections, obligations, heritage, and genealogy that make someone who he is. …

  • Like It Never Happened

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    And Job said, “May the day on which I was to be born perish, as well as the night which said, ‘A boy is conceived.’”  Job 3:2-3  NASB Perish – “The verb ʾābad is a common word for to die, or, in the case of things, reputation, etc., to pass away. . . Probably the main theological question…