Job 3:8
May they curse it, who curse the day, who are prepared to awaken a leviathan.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
In Context
7May that night be alone and unworthy of praise.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 35:25most of all Jeremiah. All the singing men and women repeat his lamentations over Josiah, even to the present day. And this has become like a law in Israel. Behold, it is found written in the Lamentations.
Job 41:10Lamps proceed from his mouth, like torches of fire burning brightly.
Jeremiah 9:17Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Consider and call upon the women mourners, and let them approach. And send to those women who are wise, and let them hurry.
Matthew 11:17who, calling out to their companions, say: ‘We played music for you, and you did not dance. We lamented, and you did not mourn.’
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 →