Job 3:1
At length Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.
Noyes Bible
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 sinned not, nor uttered vain words against God.
Job 2:9Then said his wife to him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? Renounce God, and die.
Job 35:16Therefore hath Job opened his mouth rashly, And multiplied words without knowledge.
Psalms 106:33For they provoked his spirit, So that he spake inconsiderately with his lips.
Jeremiah 20:14Cursed be the day on which I was born; Let not the day on which my mother bore me 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 →