Job 3:8

Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.

In Context

7Lo, let that night be desolate; let no joyful voice come therein.

9Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning;

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 35:25And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah; and all the singing men and singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations, unto this day; and they made them an ordinance in Israel; and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.

Job 41:10(41-2) None is so fierce that dare stir him up; who then is able to stand before Me?

Jeremiah 9:17(9-16) Thus saith the LORD of hosts: Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the wise women, that they may come;

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 →

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