Job Chapter 3 Review
Chapter 3 Job 3:1-26 (KJV) 1 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. Job after the seven days of silence from his friends, after long meditations on his state of affairs, he cursed the day of his birth. Job was certainly not a rash man. He was not unaware of words, or impact of his words. To curse. . . the Hebrew word can mean and is occasionally translated as to revile, or despise. Only God can truly curse something. We are given no such power. It is a measure of Job's pain, that after living a life measured in decades, which can only be viewed as hugely blessed that he was brought so low, in such an apparently short time. 2 And Job spake, and said, 3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived. What was long looked upon as a day of celebration, for in those days male children were valued more than female, what started out as a day of celebration for his parents, Jo...