| Job 3:1 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | Afterward Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | After all this, Job finally opened his mouth and cursed the day he was born.(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. |
| ASV: | After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. |
| BBE: | Then, opening his mouth, and cursing the day of his birth, |
| DBY: | After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed his day. |
| ERV: | After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. |
| JPS: | After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. |
| WBS: | After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day. |
| WEB: | After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth. |
| YLT: | After this hath Job opened his mouth, and revileth his day. |
| Job 3:1 Cross References |
| XREF: | Job 2:13 Then they sat down on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights with no one speaking a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.
Job 3:2 And Job said, (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| GSB: | 3:1 After this opened {a} Job his mouth, and {b} cursed his day.
(a) The seven days ended, Job 2:13.
(b) Here Job begins to feel his great imperfection in this battle between the spirit and the flesh, Ro 7:18 and after a manner yields yet in the end he gets victory though he was in the mean time greatly wounded. |
| WES: | 3:1 His day - His birth - day, in vain do some endeavour to excuse this and the following speeches of Job, who afterwards is reproved by God, and severely accuseth himself for them, chap.38:2 40:4 13:3,6. And yet he does not proceed so far as to curse God, but makes the devil a liar: but although he does not break forth into direct reproaches of God, yet he makes indirect reflections upon his providence. His curse was sinful, both because it was vain, being applied to a thing, which was not capable of blessing and cursing, and because it cast a blame upon God for bringing that day, and for giving him life on that day. |
| MHC: | 3:1-10 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 garden and on the cross, were the most dreadful; and arose in a great degree from the assaults of Satan in that hour of darkness. These inward trials show the reason of the change that took place in Job's conduct, from entire submission to the will of God, to the impatience which appears here, and in other parts of the book. The believer, who knows that a few drops of this bitter cup are more dreadful than the sharpest outward afflictions, while he is favoured with a sweet sense of the love and presence of God, will not be surprised to find that Job proved a man of like passions with others; but will rejoice that Satan was disappointed, and could not prove him a hypocrite; for though he cursed the day of his birth, he did not curse his God. Job doubtless was afterwards ashamed of these wishes, and we may suppose what must be his judgment of them now he is in everlasting happiness. |
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