Job 3:1

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 20:14-15 : 14 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed. 15 Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man-child is born unto thee; making him very glad.
  • Ps 39:2-3 : 2 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; And my sorrow was stirred. 3 My heart was hot within me; While I was musing the fire burned: [Then] spake I with my tongue:
  • Ps 106:33 : 33 Because they were rebellious against his spirit, And he spake unadvisedly with his lips.
  • Job 1:22 : 22 In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.
  • Job 2:5 : 5 But put forth thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce thee to thy face.
  • Job 2:9-9 : 9 Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still hold fast thine integrity? renounce God, and die. 10 But 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 3:3 : 3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, And the night which said, There is a man-child conceived.
  • Job 35:16 : 16 Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vanity; He multiplieth words without knowledge.

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    2 And Job answered and said:

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    7 Lo, let that night be barren; Let no joyful voice come therein.

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    1 Howbeit, Job, I pray thee, hear my speech, And hearken to all my words.

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    6 Wherefore I abhor [myself], And repent in dust and ashes.

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  • 5 But oh that God would speak, And open his lips against thee,

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    9 Therewith bless we the Lord and Father; and therewith curse we men, who are made after the likeness of God:

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  • 1 I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

  • 11 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

  • 3 Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

  • 13 And it fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house,

  • 3 Surely against me he turneth his hand again and again all the day.

  • 35 Job speaketh without knowledge, And his words are without wisdom.

  • 7 So Satan went forth from the presence of Jehovah, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.

  • 3 And dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one, And bringest me into judgment with thee?