Job 3:1
After this Job has opened his mouth, and reviles his day.
Literal Standard Version
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 has not sinned, nor given folly to God.
Job 2:9And his wife says to him, “You are still keeping hold on your integrity: bless God and die.”
Job 35:16And Job opens his mouth [with] vanity, || He multiplies words without knowledge.”
Psalms 106:33For they have provoked his spirit, || And he speaks wrongfully with his lips.
Jeremiah 20:14Cursed [is] the day in which I was born, || The day that 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 →