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Job 3:8
8Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to rouse Leviathan;
Job 3:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
- New International Version (NIV)May those who curse days curse that day, those who are ready to rouse Leviathan.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Let those curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up Leviathan.
- New King James Version (NKJV)May those curse it who curse the day, Those who are ready to arouse Leviathan.
Context of Job 3:8
6That night — let gloom seize upon it; let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months. 7Behold, let that night be barren; let no joyful sound come therein; Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to rouse Leviathan; 9Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it wait for light, and have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the dawn: 10Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, and hid not trouble from mine eyes.
Read all of Job 3Job 3:8 word by word
יִקְּבֻ֥הוּ אֹרְרֵי־י֑וֹם הָ֝עֲתִידִ֗ים עֹרֵ֥ר לִוְיָתָֽן׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 3:8
- 2 Chronicles 35:25And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah; and all the singing men and singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations to this day; and they made them an ordinance for Israel. And behold, they are written in the lamentations.
- Jeremiah 9:17Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come, and send for the skilful women, that they may come;
- Amos 5:16Therefore thus saith Jehovah, the God of hosts, the Lord: Wailing shall be in all broadways; and they shall say in all the streets, Alas! alas! And they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
- Matthew 11:17say, We have piped to you, and ye have not danced: we have mourned to you, and ye have not wailed.
- Mark 5:38And he comes to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and sees the tumult, and people weeping and wailing greatly.
- Job 41:1Wilt thou draw out the leviathan with the hook, and press down his tongue with a cord?
Commentaries on Job 3:8
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 8Let them curse it that curse the day - This translation is scarcely intelligible. I have waded through a multitude of interpretations, without being able to collect from them such a notion of the verse as could appear to me probable. Schultens, Rosenmller, and after them Mr. Good, have labored much to make it plain. They think the custom of sorcerers who had execrations for peoples, places, things, days, etc., is here referred to; such as Balaam, Elymas…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8Let them curse it who curse the day - This entire verse is exceedingly difficult, and many different expositions have been given of it. It seems evident that it refers to some well-known class of persons, who were accustomed to utter imprecations, and were supposed to have the power to render a day propitious or unpropitious - persons who had the power of divination or enchantment. A belief in such a power existed early in the world, and has prevailed in…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 8The phrase those who curse the day refers to people paid to curse, like Balaam (Numbers 22–24).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. them ... curse the day--If "mourning" be the right rendering in the latter clause of this verse, these words refer to the hired mourners of the dead (Jr 9:17). But the Hebrew for "mourning" elsewhere always denotes an animal, whether it be the crocodile or some huge serpent (Is 27:1), such as is meant by "leviathan." Therefore, the expression, "cursers of day," refers to magicians, who were believed to be able by charms to make a day one of evil omen…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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