1After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
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Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed. …
Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips.
I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred. …
Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)Long was Job’s heart hot within him; and, while he was musing, the fire burned, and the more for being stifled and suppressed. At length he spoke with his tongue, but not such a good word as David spoke after a long pause: Lord, make me to know my end , Ps. 39:3 , 4 . Seven days the prophet Ezekiel sat down astonished with the captives, and then (probably on the sabbath day) the word of the Lord c…
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