Job 3:1
After this time Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
In Context
Cross References
Job 1:22With all this did Job not sin, and attributed no injustice to God.
Job 2:9Then said his wife unto him, Art thou still holding fast to thy integrity? renounce God, and die.
Job 35:16But Job openeth wide his mouth for nought: without knowledge he heapeth up words.
Psalms 106:33Because they had embittered his spirit, and so he spoke thoughtlessly with his lips.
Jeremiah 20:14Cursed be the day whereon I was born: the day on which my mother bore me shall 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 →