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Job 3:8
8People who know how to curse days should curse that day. They should wake up Leviathan, the monster from the sea, to attack it.
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
6Remove that night completely! It should no longer be a date among the days of the year. Remove that day from the months of the year. 7Do not let women become pregnant on that night. Nobody should be happy! People who know how to curse days should curse that day. They should wake up Leviathan, the monster from the sea, to attack it. 9The stars of early morning should be dark on that day. Do not let the sun shine at dawn, so that there is no end to the dark night. 10I curse that day because it allowed me to be born. It brought me into a life of trouble.
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יִקְּבֻ֥הוּ אֹרְרֵי־י֑וֹם הָ֝עֲתִידִ֗ים עֹרֵ֥ר לִוְיָתָֽן׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 3:8
- 2 Chronicles 35:25Jeremiah wrote sad songs about Josiah's death. The male and female singers still sing these songs to remember Josiah, even today. The songs have become something that the people of Israel always like to sing. They are written in a book called ‘The book of sad songs’.
- Jeremiah 9:17The Lord Almighty said this: ‘Think about what is happening! Call the women who weep at funerals. Bring those women who know what to do.’
- Amos 5:16The Lord, the Lord God Almighty says, ‘All the people will be sad. They will weep and cry loudly in all the streets. They will tell the farmers to weep with them. They will tell the singers to sing sad songs for them.
- Matthew 11:17“We made happy music on a flute for you, but you did not dance. We sang a sad song but you did not cry.”
- Mark 5:38Then they came to Jairus's house. Jesus saw that there were many people there. They were crying and they were making a loud noise.
- Job 41:1‘It is the same with the sea monsters called Leviathan. Can you catch them with a hook? Can you use a rope to keep their mouths shut?
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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