Job 3:8
Let it be cursed by those who put a curse on the day; who are ready to make Leviathan awake.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
In Context
7As for that night, let it have no fruit; let no voice of joy be sounded in it;
Cross References
2 Chronicles 35:25And Jeremiah made a song of grief for Josiah; and to this day Josiah is named by all the makers of melody, men and women, in their songs of grief; they made it a rule in Israel; and the songs are recorded among the songs of grief.
Job 41:10\41:19\Out of his mouth go burning lights, and flames of fire are jumping up.
Jeremiah 9:17This is what the Lord of armies has said: Take thought and send for the weeping women, so that they may come; and send for the wise women, so that they may come:
Matthew 11:17We made music for you and you did not take part in the dance; we gave cries of sorrow and you made no signs of grief.
Matthew Henry on Job 3:2-11
Job Curses His Day. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. 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. 4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. 5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. 6 As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto… Read the whole commentary →