Job 3:8
Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
Revised Version 1895
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 barren; let no joyful voice come therein.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 35:25And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and singing women spake 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 41:10None is so fierce that he dare stir him up: who then is he that can stand before me?
Jeremiah 9:17Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the cunning women, that they may come:
Matthew 11:17and say, We piped unto you, and ye did not dance; we wailed, and ye did not mourn.
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 →