Job 3:1 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.

Job 3:1 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 20:14-15
Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed. …
Psalms 106:33
Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips.
Psalms 39:2-3
I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred. …
Job 35:16
Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
Job 1:22
In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Blessing Despair Despondency Discouragement Enquiring of God Importunity Prayer

Commentary

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 came…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 1)

THE POEM OR DEBATE ITSELF (Job 3:2-42:6). FIRST SERIES IN IT (Job 3:1-14:22). JOB FIRST (Job 3:1-26). Job 3:1-19. Job Curses the Day of His Birth and Wishes for Death. 1. opened his mouth--The Orientals speak seldom, and then sententiously; hence this formula expressing deliberation and gravity (Psa 78:2). He formally began. cursed his day--the strict Hebrew word for “cursing:” not the same as in…