Job 3:1
After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed his day.
Darby Translation
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 sinned not, nor ascribed anything unseemly to God.
Job 2:9And his wife said to him, Dost thou still remain firm in thine integrity? curse God and die.
Job 35:16For Job hath opened his mouth in vanity, and made words abundant without knowledge.
Psalms 106:33For they provoked his spirit, so that he spoke unadvisedly with his lips.
Jeremiah 20:14Cursed be the day wherein I was born; let not the day wherein 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 →