Job 3:8
Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
Webster Bible
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 solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 35:25And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women have spoken of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and behold, they are written in the lamentations.
Job 41:10None is so fierce that he dare rouse him: who then is able to 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 skillful women , that they may come:
Matthew 11:17And saying, We have piped to you, and ye have not danced; We have mourned to you, and ye have not lamented.
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 →