Job 3:8
Let day-cursers denounce it, Those skilled in rousing the dragon of the sky:
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
In Context
7Lo! that night, be it barren, Let no joyous shouting enter therein:
Cross References
2 Chronicles 35:25And Jeremiah chanted a dirge over Josiah, and all the singing men and singing women in their dirges have spoken concerning Josiah, until this day, and they appointed them by statute for Israel,—and, there they are, written among the dirges.
Job 41:10None so bold, that he will rouse him! Who then is he that, before me, can stand?
Jeremiah 9:17Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, Consider ye diligently and call for the wailing women that they may come,—And unto the wise women, send ye, that they may come;
Matthew 11:17say, We played the flute to you, and ye danced not,—we sang a lament, and ye beat not the breast.
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 →