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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Job 3:1 - 3:1
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Job 3:1-19. Job curses the day of his birth and wishes for death.
opened his mouth - The Orientals speak seldom, and then sententiously; hence this formula expressing deliberation and gravity (Psa 78:2). He formally began.
cursed his day - the strict Hebrew word for “cursing:” not the same as in Job 1:5. Job cursed his birthday, but not his God.