Job 3:1
After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day,
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
In Context
Cross References
Job 1:22In all these events that befel him Job sinned not at all before the Lord, and did not impute folly to God.
Job 2:9e but say some word against the Lord, and die.
Job 35:16Yet Job vainly opens his mouth, in ignorance he multiplies words.
Psalms 106:33He turns rivers into a desert, and streams of + 106:33 Gr. waters.water into + 106:33 Gr. thirst.a dry land;
Jeremiah 20:14Cursed be the day wherein I was born: the day wherein my mother brought me forth, 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 →