Job 3:8

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

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7Lo, may that night be solitary, let no song of joy occur thereon.

9Let the stars of its twilight be darkened; let it hope for light, and there be none; and let it not behold the eyelids of the morning-dawn;

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 35:25And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah; and all the singing men and the singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and they instituted them as a custom in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.

Job 41:10(41:2) None is so daring that he would stir him up: and who is there that will stand up before me?

Jeremiah 9:17(9:16) Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, Consider it well, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the women skilled in lament, 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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