Job 3:8
Those who place curses on certain days should curse it, those who have the power to raise Leviathan.
Free Bible Version
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 childless, with no sounds of happiness heard.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 35:25Then Jeremiah wrote a lament over Josiah, and to this day male and female choirs sing sad songs about Josiah. They have become a part of what is regularly sung in Israel, and they are recorded in the Book of Laments.
Job 41:10Since no one has the courage to provoke Leviathan, who would dare to stand up against me?
Jeremiah 9:17This is what the Lord Almighty says: Be aware of what's happening! Call for the professional women mourners, ask for the best of them.
Matthew 11:17‘We played the flute for you and you didn't dance; we sang sad songs and you didn't cry.’
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 →