Job 3:8
May it be cursed by those who curse the day—those prepared to rouse Leviathan.
BSB
ASV
Let them curse it that curse the day, Who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
KJV
Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
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.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Job 41:1“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?
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You crushed the heads of Leviathan; You fed him to the creatures of the desert.
There the ships pass, and Leviathan, which You formed to frolic there.
In that day the LORD will take His sharp, great, and mighty sword, and bring judgment on Leviathan the fleeing serpent—Leviathan the coiling serpent—and He will slay the dragon of the sea.
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Amos 5:16Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: “There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets. The farmer will…
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Be dismayed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, over the wheat and barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Take note, and summon the wailing women; send for the most skillful among them.
I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness pasture, for they have been scorched so no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not…
Dibon goes up to its temple to weep at its high places. Moab wails over Nebo, as well as over Medeba. Every head is shaved, every beard is cut off.