Job 3:8
Let them curse it who curse the day. who are ready to raise up a leviathan:
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
In Context
7Let that night be solitary, and not worthy of praise.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 35:25Particularly Jeremias: whose lamentations for Josias all the singing men and singing women repeat unto this day, and it became like a law in Israel: Behold it is found written in the Lamentations.
Job 41:10Out of his mouth go forth lamps, like torches of lighted fire.
Jeremiah 9:17Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, and let them come: and send to them that are wise women, and let them make haste:
Matthew 11:17Who crying to their companions say: We have piped to you, and you have not danced: we have lamented, and you have not mourned.
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 →