Job 3:1
After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
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Job 1:22In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.
Job 2:9Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.
Job 35:16Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
Psalms 106:33Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips.
Jeremiah 20:14Cursed be the day wherein I was born: 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 →