Job 3:8
But let him that curses that day curse it, 1 Even he that is ready to attack the great whale. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
In Context
7But let that night be pain, 1 And let not mirth come upon it, nor joy. 1
Cross References
2 Chronicles 35:25And Jeremiah mourned over Josiah, and all the chief men and chief women uttered a lamentation over Josiah until this day: and they made it an ordinance for Israel, and, behold, it is written in the lamentations.
Job 41:10At his sneezing a light shines, 1 And his eyes are as the appearance of the morning star. 1
Jeremiah 9:17and let them take up a lamentation for you, and let your eyes pour down tears, and your eyelids drop water.
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 →