Job 3:8
May it be cursed by those who curse the day — those prepared to rouse Leviathan.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
In Context
7Behold, may that night be barren; may no joyful voice come into it.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 35:25Then Jeremiah lamented over Josiah, and to this day all the choirs of men and women sing laments over Josiah. They established them as a statute for Israel, and indeed they are written in the Book of Laments.
Job 41:10No one is so fierce as to rouse Leviathan. Then who is able to stand against Me?
Jeremiah 9:17This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Take note, and summon the wailing women; send for the most skillful among them.
Matthew 11:17‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, 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 →