Job 3:1
After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
In Context
Cross References
Job 1:22For all this Job sinned not, nor ascribed aught unseemly to God.
Job 2:9Then said his wife unto him: 'Dost thou still hold fast thine integrity? blaspheme God, and die.'
Job 35:16But Job doth open his mouth in vanity; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
Psalms 106:33For they embittered his spirit, and he spoke rashly with his lips.
Jeremiah 20:14Cursed be the day wherein I was born; the day wherein my mother bore 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 →