opened: Job 35:16; Psalms 39:2-3, Psalms 106:33
cursed: Job 3:3, Job 1:11, Job 2:5, Job 2:9; Jeremiah 20:14-15
his day: That is, the day of his birth.
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Job 3:1
Job 3:1
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