Job 3:1
After this Job began speaking, cursing the day of his birth.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
In Context
Cross References
Job 1:22In all of this Job did not sin, nor blame God.
Job 2:9His wife said to him, “Are you still holding on to your integrity? Curse God and die!”
Job 35:16You, Job, are talking nonsense, making long speeches when you know nothing!”
Psalms 106:33They upset him so much that he spoke without thinking in the heat of the moment.
Jeremiah 20:14May the day I was born be cursed! May the day my mother gave birth to me never 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 →