Job 3:1
Afterward Iob opened his mouth, and cursed his day.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
In Context
Cross References
Job 1:22In all this did not Iob sinne, nor charge God foolishly.
Job 2:9Then said his wife vnto him, Doest thou continue yet in thine vprightnes? Blaspheme God, and dye.
Job 35:16Therfore Iob openeth his mouth in vaine, and multiplieth wordes without knowledge.
Psalms 106:33Because they vexed his spirite, so that hee spake vnaduisedly with his lippes.
Jeremiah 20:14Cursed be the day wherein I was borne: and let not the day wherein my mother bare 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 →