Job 3:1
After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
In Context
Cross References
Job 1:22In all this Job did not sin, nor foolishly accuse God.
Job 2:9Then his wife said to him, Do thou still hold fast thine integrity? Renounce God, and die.
Job 35:16so Job opens his mouth in vanity. He multiplies words without knowledge.
Psalms 106:33because they were rebellious against his spirit, and he spoke ill-advisedly with his lips.
Jeremiah 20:14Cursed be the day in which I was born. Let not the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.
Matthew Henry on Job 3:1
"You have heard of the patience of Job," says the apostle, Jam. v. 11 . So we have, and of his impatience too. We wondered that a man should be so patient as he was ( ch. i. and ii. ), but we wonder also that a good man should be so impatient as he is in this chapter, where we find him cursing his day, and, in passion, I. Complaining that he was born, ver. 1-10 . II. Complaining that he did not die as soon as he was born, ver. 11-19 . III. Complaining that his life was now continued when he was in misery, ver.… Read the whole commentary →