Job 3:8
May they curse that day, 1 those who know how to wake up Leviathan. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
In Context
7See, may that night be barren; 1 may no joyful voice come into it. 1
Cross References
2 Chronicles 35:25Jeremiah lamented for Josiah; all the male and female singers lament about Josiah to this day. These songs became customary in Israel; behold, they are written in the songs of lament.
Job 41:10None is so fierce that he dare stir Leviathan up; 1 who, then, is he who can stand before me? 1
Jeremiah 9:17Yahweh of hosts says this, “Think about this: Summon 1 funeral singers; let them come. Send out for women skilled at lamenting; let them come. 1
Matthew 11:17and say, 'We played a flute for you, and you did not dance. We mourned, and you did not weep.'
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 →