Job 3:1
After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day he was born. 1
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After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
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Cross References
Job 1:22In all this matter, Job did not sin, nor did he accuse God of wrongdoing.
Job 2:9Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die.”
Job 35:16So Job opens his mouth only to speak foolishness; 1 he piles up words without knowledge.”
Psalms 106:33They made Moses bitter, 1 and he spoke rashly. 1
Jeremiah 20:14Let the day when I was born be cursed. 1 Do not let the day that my mother bore me be blessed. 1
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 →