--- title: "Job 3 - Study King James Bible with commentary critical and explanatory on the whole bible" description: "Read Job 3 with commentary critical and explanatory on the whole bible commentary. 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 s" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/commentary-critical-and-explanatory-on-the-whole-bible/job/3" --- [ Read](/kjv/job/3)[ Commentary](/study/job/3)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/job/3) Audio 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, 14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves; 15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: 16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants *which* never saw light. 17 There the wicked cease *from* troubling; and there the weary be at rest.* 18 *There* the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. 19 The small and great are there; and the servant *is* free from his master. 20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter *in* soul; 21 Which long for death, but it *cometh* not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;* 22 Which rejoice exceedingly, *and* are glad, when they can find the grave? 23 *Why is light given* to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in? 24 For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.* 25 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.* 26 I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came. [Job 2](/study/job/2) [Job 4](/study/job/4) ## Commentary To verse 1 **1. opened his mouth**—The Orientals speak seldom, and then sententiously; hence this formula expressing deliberation and gravity ( :-). He formally began. **cursed his day**—the strict *Hebrew* word for "cursing:" not the same as in [Job 1:5](/kjv/job/1/5). 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