Job 3:1
After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
Updated King James Version
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 charged God foolishly.
Job 2:9Then said his wife unto him, Do you still retain yours integrity? curse God, and die.
Job 35:16Therefore does Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplies words without knowledge.
Psalms 106:33Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spoke without due consideration 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 →