Job 3:1
After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
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Cursed {be} the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips.
I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, {even} from good; and my sorrow was stirred. {stirred: Heb. troubled}
But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.
Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.
Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly. {charged...: or, attributed folly to God}
Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night {in which} it was said, There is a man child conceived.
But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face. {and he...: Heb. if he curse thee not to thy face}
Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue hath spoken in my mouth. {in my mouth: Heb. in my palate}
And it came to pass the third day, {which was} Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants: and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the chief baker among his servants. {lifted...: or, reckoned}
And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, {and} when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; {yet} every one of them doth curse me.
And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.
And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying,