American Standard Version
Job 3:1
1After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
Job 3:1 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
- New International Version (NIV)After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
- English Standard Version (ESV)After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
- New King James Version (NKJV)After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
Context of Job 3:1
After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. 2And Job answered and said: 3Let the day perish wherein I was born, And the night which said, There is a man-child conceived.
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אַחֲרֵי־כֵ֗ן פָּתַ֤ח אִיּוֹב֙ אֶת־פִּ֔יהוּ וַיְקַלֵּ֖ל אֶת־יוֹמֽוֹ׃ פRead the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 3:1
- Job 1:22In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.
- Job 2:10But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
- Job 35:16Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vanity; He multiplieth words without knowledge.
- Psalms 39:2I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; And my sorrow was stirred.
- Psalms 106:33Because they were rebellious against his spirit, And he spake unadvisedly with his lips.
- Job 3:3Let the day perish wherein I was born, And the night which said, There is a man-child conceived.
- Job 1:11But put forth thy hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will renounce thee to thy face.
- Job 2:5But put forth thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce thee to thy face.
- Jeremiah 20:14Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
Commentaries on Job 3:1
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 1After this opened Job his mouth - After the seven days' mourning was over, there being no prospect of relief, Job is represented as thus cursing the day of his birth. Here the poetic part of the book begins; for most certainly there is nothing in the preceding chapters either in the form or spirit of Hebrew poetry. It is easy indeed to break the sentences into hemistichs; but this does not constitute them poetry: for, although Hebrew poetry is in general…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1After this - Dr. Good renders this, “at length.” It means after the long silence of his friends, and after he saw that there was no prospect of relief or of consolation. Opened Job his mouth - The usual formula in Hebrew to denote thc commencement of a speech; see Matthew 5:2. Schultens contends that it means boldness and vehemency of speech, ̓̔́ parrēsia or an opening of the mouth for the purpose of accusing, expostulating, or complaining; or to begin…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 1Job complains that he was born. (1-10) Job complaining. (11-19) He complains of his life. (20-26) Verses 1-10 For seven days Job's friends sat by him in silence, without offering consolidation: at the same time Satan assaulted his mind to shake his confidence, and to fill him with hard thoughts of God. The permission seems to have extended to this, as well as to torturing the body. Job was an especial type of Christ, whose inward sufferings, both in the…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-10Job spoke and risked words of sin (1:21; 2:10). Job cursed the day of his birth in great detail. However, his words sounded more like sad complaints. Job did not curse God as his creator, but he showed grief about the condition of his life.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1THE POEM OR DEBATE ITSELF (Job 3:2-42:6). FIRST SERIES IN IT (Job 3:1-14:22). JOB FIRST (Job 3:1-26). 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 Job 1:5. Job cursed his birthday, but not his God.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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