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Job 3:8

Let the cursers of day mark it, Who are ready to wake up Leviathan.

Young's Literal Translation

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 — let it be gloomy, Let no singing come into it.

9Let the stars of its twilight be dark, Let it wait for light, and there is none, And let it not look on the eyelids of the dawn.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 35:25and Jeremiah lamenteth for Josiah, and all the singers and the songstresses speak in their lamentations of Josiah unto this day, and set them for a statute on Israel, and lo, they are written beside the lamentations.

Job 41:10None so fierce that he doth awake him, And who [is] he before Me stationeth himself?

Jeremiah 9:17Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Consider ye, and call for mourning women, And they come, And to the wise women send, and they come,

Matthew 11:17and saying, We piped unto you, and ye did not dance, we lamented to you, and ye did not smite 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 →

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