Job 3:1
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After this, Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day,

After.

Job 1:22 In all these things Job sinned not by his lips, nor spoke he any foolish thing against God.

Job 2:10 And he said to her: Thou hast spoken like one of the foolish women: If we have received good things at the hand of God, why should we not receive evil? In all these things Job did not sin with his lips.

opened.

Job 35:16 Therefore Job openeth his mouth in vain, and multiplieth words without knowledge.

Psalm 39:2,3 I was dumb, and was humbled, and kept silence from good things: and my sorrow was renewed. . . .

Psalm 106:33 Because they exasperated his spirit. And he distinguished with his lips.

cursed.

Job 3:3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said: A man child is conceived.

Job 1:11 But stretch forth thy hand a little, and touch all that he hath, and see if he bless thee not to thy face.

Job 2:5,9 But put forth thy hand, and touch his bone and his flesh, and then thou shalt see that he will bless thee to thy face. . . .

Jeremiah 20:14,15 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day in which my mother bore me, be blessed. . . .

his day.

Context
Job Laments His Birth
1After this, Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day,2And he said:…
Cross References
Job 2:13
And they sat with him on the ground seven day and seven nights and no man spoke to him a word: for they saw that his grief was very great.

Job 3:2
And he said:

Jeremiah 15:10
Woe is me, my mother: why hast thou borne me a man of strife, a man of contention to all the earth? I have not lent on usury, neither hath any man lent to me on usury: yet all curse me.

Lexicon
After
אַחֲרֵי־ (’a·ḥă·rê-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 310: The hind or following part

this,
כֵ֗ן (ḵên)
Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 3651: So -- thus

Job
אִיּוֹב֙ (’î·yō·wḇ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 347: Job -- a patriarch

opened
פָּתַ֤ח (pā·ṯaḥ)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6605: To open wide, to loosen, begin, plough, carve

his mouth
פִּ֔יהוּ (pî·hū)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 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 Hebrew 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 Hebrew 3117: A day


Additional Translations
After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.

After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.

After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day,

After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed his day.

After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.

After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day.

After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.

After this hath Job opened his mouth, and revileth his day.
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