--- title: "Job 3 - Study King James Bible with pooles english annotations on the holy bible" description: "Read Job 3 with pooles english annotations on the holy 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/pooles-english-annotations-on-the-holy-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 He spake freely and boldly, as this phrase is used, [Proverbs 31:8](/kjv/proverbs/31/8),[Proverbs 31:9](/kjv/proverbs/31/9); [Ephesians 6:19](/kjv/ephesians/6/19), and elsewhere, **and cursed his day,**to wit, his birthday, as is evident from [Job 3:3](/kjv/job/3/3), which is called simply a man’s *day*, [Hosea 7:5](/kjv/hosea/7/5); which also some others, through the same infirmity, and in the same circumstances, have cursed, as we see, [Jeremiah 20:14](/kjv/jeremiah/20/14). In vain do some men endeavour to excuse this and the following speeches of Job, who afterwards is reproved by God and severely accuseth himself for them, [Job 38:2](/kjv/job/38/2); [Job 40:4](/kjv/job/40/4); [Job 42:3](/kjv/job/42/3),[Job 42:6](/kjv/job/42/6). And yet he doth not proceed so far as to curse or blaspheme God, but makes the devil a liar in his prognostics. But although he doth not break forth into direct and downright reproaches of God, yet he makes secret and indirect reflections upon God’s providence. His curse was sinful, both because it was vain, being applied to an unreasonable thing, which was not capable of blessing and cursing, and to a day that was past, and so out of the reach of all curses; and because it was applied to one of God’s creatures, all which were and are in themselves very good, and pronounced blessed by God; and so they are, if we do not turn them into curses; and because it casts a blame upon God for bringing that day, and for giving him that life which that day brought into the world. 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