Job 3:1
After this hath Job opened his mouth, and revileth his day.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
In Context
2And Job answereth and saith: —
Cross References
Job 1:22In all this Job hath not sinned, nor given folly to God.
Job 2:9And his wife saith to him, 'Still thou art keeping hold on thine integrity: bless God and die.'
Job 35:16And Job [with] vanity doth open his mouth, Without knowledge words he multiplieth.
Psalms 106:33For they have provoked his spirit, And he speaketh wrongfully with his lips.
Jeremiah 20:14Cursed [is] the day in which I was born, The day that my mother bare me, Let it not 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 →