Job detests the day of his birth; wishes that he had never been born, and complains that the thing which he feared is come upon him.
Before Christ 1645.
Job 3:1. After this opened Job his mouth— The days of mourning being now over, and no hopes appearing of Job's amendment, but his afflictions rather increasing, he bursts into a severe lamentation, and wishes that he had never existed, or that his death had immediately followed his birth; life, under such a load of calamity, appearing to him the greatest possible affliction. It may be proper just to remark, that the metrical part of the book begins at the third verse of this chapter.