Job 3:1
After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed his day,
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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 by his lips, nor did he speak any foolish thing against God.
Job 2:9But his wife said to him, “Do you still continue in your simplicity? Bless God and die.”
Job 35:16Therefore, Job has opened his mouth in vain and has multiplied words without knowledge.
Psalms 106:33He has placed rivers in the desert and sources of water in dry places,
Jeremiah 20:14Cursed is the day on which I was born! The day on which my mother gave birth to me: let it not 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 →