KJV King James Version
Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
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Job 3:8
Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
May it be cursed by those who curse the day—those prepared to rouse Leviathan.
WEB World English Bible
Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
ASV American Standard Version
Let them curse it that curse the day, Who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Let the cursers of day mark it, Who are ready to wake up Leviathan.
Surrounding context — Job 3
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 the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
7 Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but [have] none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
10 Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother’s] womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
11 Why died I not from the womb? [why] did I [not] give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
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Job 41:1Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord [which] thou lettest down?Job 41:10None [is so] fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?Amos 5:16Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing [shall be] in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.Job 41:25When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.Matthew 11:17And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.2 Chronicles 35:25And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they [are] written in the lamentations.Jeremiah 9:17-18Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning [women], that they may come:Mark 5:38And he cometh to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and seeth the tumult, and them that wept and wailed greatly.
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