Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. New Living Translation At last Job spoke, and he cursed the day of his birth. English Standard Version After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. Berean Standard Bible After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. King James Bible After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. New King James Version After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. New American Standard Bible Afterward Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. NASB 1995 Afterward Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. NASB 1977 Afterward Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. Legacy Standard Bible Afterward Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. Amplified Bible After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. Christian Standard Bible After this, Job began to speak and cursed the day he was born. Holman Christian Standard Bible After this, Job began to speak and cursed the day he was born. American Standard Version After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. Aramaic Bible in Plain English And after this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day on which he was born Brenton Septuagint Translation After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day, Contemporary English Version Finally, Job cursed the day of his birth Douay-Rheims Bible After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day, English Revised Version After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. GOD'S WORD® Translation After all this, Job [finally] opened his mouth and cursed the day he was born. Good News Translation Finally Job broke the silence and cursed the day on which he had been born. International Standard Version After this, Job spoke up solemnly, cursing the day he was born. JPS Tanakh 1917 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. Literal Standard Version After this Job has opened his mouth, and reviles his day. Majority Standard Bible After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. New American Bible After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed his day. NET Bible After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day he was born. New Revised Standard Version After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. New Heart English Bible After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day. Webster's Bible Translation After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day. World English Bible After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth. Young's Literal Translation After this hath Job opened his mouth, and revileth his day. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Job Laments His Birth1After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. 2And this is what he said:… Cross References Job 2:13 Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw how intense his suffering was. Job 3:2 And this is what he said: Jeremiah 15:10 Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and conflict in all the land. I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me. Treasury of Scripture After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. After. Job 1:22 In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly. Job 2:10 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. opened. Job 35:16 Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge. Psalm 39:2,3 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred… Psalm 106:33 Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips. cursed. Job 3:3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived. Job 1:11 But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face. Job 2:5,9 But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face… his day. Jump to Previous Afterward Birth Cursed Cursing Job Mouth Opened Opening RevilethJump to Next Afterward Birth Cursed Cursing Job Mouth Opened Opening RevilethJob 3 1. Job curses the day and services of his birth.13. The ease of death. 20. He complains of life, because of his anguish. III. (1) After this opened Job his mouth.--There is a striking similarity between this chapter and Jeremiah 20:14-18, so much so that one must be borrowed from the other; the question is, which is the original? Is Jeremiah the germ of this? or is this the tree from which a branch has been hewn by Jeremiah? Our own conviction is that Job is the original, inasmuch as this chapter is indispensable to the development of the poem; but in Jeremiah the passage occurs casually as the record of a passing mood of despair. It is, moreover, apparently clear that Jeremiah is quoting Job as he might quote one of the Psalms or any other writing with which he was familiar. He was applying to daily life the well-known expression of a patriarchal experience, whereas in the other case the words of Job would be the ideal magnifying of a commonplace and realistic experience. Verse 1. - After this opened Job his mouth. The first to take the word is Job, as, indeed, etiquette made necessary, when the visit paid was one of condolence. It can only be conjectured what the feelings were which had kept him silent so long. We may, perhaps, suggest that in the countenances and manner of his friends he saw something which displeased him, something indicative of their belief that he had brought his afflictions upon himself by secret sins of a heinous character. Pharisaism finds it very difficult to conceal itself; signs of it are almost sure to escape; often it manifests itself, without a word spoken, most offensively. The phrase, "opened his mouth," is not to be dismissed merely as a Hebraism. It is one used only on solemn occasions, and implies the utterance of deep thoughts, well considered beforehand (Psalm 78:21; Matthew 5:2), or of feelings long repressed, and now at length allowed expression. And cursed his day; "cursed," i.e., the "day of his birth." Some critics think that "cursed" is too strong a word, and suggest "reviled;" but it cannot be denied that "to curse" is a frequent meaning of קָלַל and it is difficult to see in Job's words (vers. 3-10) anything but a "curse" of a very intense character. To curse one's natal day is not, perhaps, a very wise act, since it can have no effect on the day or on anything else; but so great a prophet as Jeremiah imitated Job in this respect (Jeremiah 20:14-18), so that before Christianity it would seem that men were allowed thus to relieve their feelings. All that such cursing means is that one wishes one had never been born.Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Afterאַחֲרֵי־ (’a·ḥă·rê-) Preposition Strong's 310: The hind or following part this, כֵ֗ן (ḵên) Adverb Strong's 3651: So -- thus Job אִיּוֹב֙ (’î·yō·wḇ) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 347: Job -- a patriarch opened פָּתַ֤ח (pā·ṯaḥ) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 6605: To open wide, to loosen, begin, plough, carve his mouth פִּ֔יהוּ (pî·hū) Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular Strong's 6310: The mouth, edge, portion, side, according to and cursed וַיְקַלֵּ֖ל (way·qal·lêl) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 7043: To be slight, swift or trifling the day of his [birth]. יוֹמֽוֹ׃ (yō·w·mōw) Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular Strong's 3117: A day Links Job 3:1 NIVJob 3:1 NLT Job 3:1 ESV Job 3:1 NASB Job 3:1 KJV Job 3:1 BibleApps.com Job 3:1 Biblia Paralela Job 3:1 Chinese Bible Job 3:1 French Bible Job 3:1 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Job 3:1 After this Job opened his mouth (Jb) |