Job 3:8 KJV — MannaFest

Job 3:8

Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.

KJV

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ASV

Let them curse it that curse the day, Who are ready to rouse up leviathan.

WEB

May it be cursed by those who curse the day— those prepared to rouse Leviathan.

YLT

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

DBT

Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to rouse Leviathan;

About this book

Old Testament

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Job — The canonical wisdom-literature interrogation of undeserved suffering. A prose frame enclosing three cycles of dialogue, a late Elihu interrupt, and a whirlwind theophany that does not answer the question — it relativizes it.

Author: Anonymous. Talmudic tradition names Moses (Bava Batra 14b); internal features (patriarchal setting, no Mosaic Law reference, Job sacrificing as family head, *qesitah* currency of Gen 33:19) suggest patriarchal-era composition or at least tradition-origin.
Date: Traditional: patriarchal period, c. 2000–1800 BC. Critical proposals scatter across pre-exilic to post-exilic. §7.9 surfaces; Pastor Marc's drawer takes the position.

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11 verses on the floor

Job 41:1
Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?
Psalms 74:14
Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
Isaiah 27:1
In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
Job 41:10
None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?
2 Chronicles 35:25
And 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.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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): "Let none ever desire to see it, or bid it welcome when it comes, but, on the contrary, let those curse it that curse the day. Whatever day any are tempted to curse, let them at the same time bestow one curse upon my birth-day, particularly those that make it their trade to raise up mourning at funerals with their ditties of lamentation.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

But the Hebrew for "mourning" elsewhere always denotes an animal, whether it be the crocodile or some huge serpent (Isa 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.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

The day - Their birth-day: when their afflictions move them to curse their own birth-day, let them remember mine also, and bestow some curses upon it. Mourning - Who are full of sorrow, and always ready to pour out their cries, and tears, and complaints.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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