Job 3:1
After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.
World English 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 didn’t sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing.
Job 2:9Then his wife said to him, “Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die.”
Job 35:16therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge.”
Psalms 106:33because they were rebellious against his spirit, he spoke rashly with his lips.
Jeremiah 20:14Cursed is the day in which I was born. Don’t let the day in 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 →