Job 3:1
Then, opening his mouth, and cursing the day of his birth,
Bible in Basic English
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 no sin, and did not say that God's acts were foolish.
Job 2:9And his wife said to him, Are you still keeping your righteousness? Say a curse against God, and put an end to yourself.
Job 35:16And Job's mouth is open wide to give out what is of no profit, increasing words without knowledge.
Psalms 106:33For they made his spirit bitter, and he said unwise things.
Jeremiah 20:14A curse on the day of my birth: let there be no blessing on the day when my mother had me.
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 →