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Job 3:1-13

King James Version (KJV)

“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”

— D.L. Moody

Scripture focus

1. After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. 2. And Job spake, and said, 3. Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night [in which] it was said, There is a man child conceived. 4. Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. 5. Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. 6. [As for] that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months. 7. Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein. 8. Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning. 9. Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but [have] none; neither let it see the dawning of the day: 10. Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother’s] womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes. 11. Why died I not from the womb? [why] did I [not] give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? 12. Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck? 13. For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

Job 3:1-13 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Job 3:1

Theological / Devotional

Cursed his day. The word translated “cursed” is from qalal, a common term for cursing, and not barak as in chs. 1:5, 11; 2:5, 9 (see on ch. 1:5). The passing weeks had apparently reduced Job from an attitude of calm resignation to one of deep despair. Compare Jeremiah’s cursing of the day of his birth in similar language (Jer. 20:14-18).

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Commentary on Job 3:1

Theological / Devotional

Cursed his day. The word translated “cursed” is from qalal, a common term for cursing, and not barak as in chapters 1:5, 11; 2:5, 9 (see on Job 1:5). The passing weeks had apparently reduced Job from an attitude of calm resignation to one of deep despair. Compare Jeremiah’s cursing of the day of his birth in similar language (Jeremiah 20:14-18).

By SdaBc