Job 3:8
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Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to raise up a leviathan:

who are ready.

2 Chronicles 35:25 Particularly Jeremias: whose lamentations for Josias all the singing men and singing women repeat unto this day, and it became like a law in Israel: Behold it is found written in the Lamentations.

Jeremiah 9:17,18 Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, and let them come: and send to them that are wise women, and let them make haste: . . .

Amos 5:16 Therefore thus saith the Lord the God of hosts the sovereign Lord: In every street there shall be wailing: and in all places that are without, they shall say: Alas, alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful in lamentation to lament.

Matthew 11:17 Who crying to their companions say: We have piped to you, and you have not danced: we have lamented, and you have not mourned.

Mark 5:38 And they cone to the house of the ruler of the synagogue; and he seeth a tumult, and people weeping and wailing much.

their mourning.

Job 41:1,10 Canst thou draw out the leviathan with a hook, or canst thou tie his tongue with a cord? . . .

Context
Job Laments His Birth
7Let that night be solitary, and not worthy of praise. 8Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to raise up a leviathan:9Let the stars be darkened with the mist thereof: let it expect light, and not see it, nor the rising of the dawning of the day:…
Cross References
Job 3:7
Let that night be solitary, and not worthy of praise.

Job 3:9
Let the stars be darkened with the mist thereof: let it expect light, and not see it, nor the rising of the dawning of the day:

Job 41:1
Canst thou draw out the leviathan with a hook, or canst thou tie his tongue with a cord?

Job 41:10
I will not stir him up, like one that is cruel, for who can resist my countenance?

Job 41:25
When he shall raise him up, the angels shall fear, and being affrighted shall purify themselves.

Isaiah 27:1
In that day the Lord with his hard, and great, and strong sword shall visit leviathan the bar serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent, and shall slay the whale that is in the sea.

Lexicon
May it be cursed
אֹרְרֵי־ (’ō·rə·rê-)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 779: To execrate

by those who curse
יִקְּבֻ֥הוּ (yiq·qə·ḇu·hū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5344: To puncture

the day—
י֑וֹם (yō·wm)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3117: A day

those prepared
הָ֝עֲתִידִ֗ים (hā·‘ă·ṯî·ḏîm)
Article | Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 6264: Prepared, skilful, treasure

to rouse
עֹרֵ֥ר (‘ō·rêr)
Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 5782: To rouse oneself, awake

Leviathan.
לִוְיָתָֽן׃ (liw·yā·ṯān)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3882: A wreathed animal, a serpent, dragon, Babylon


Additional Translations
May it be cursed by those who curse the day—those prepared to rouse Leviathan.Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.

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

But let him that curses that day curse it, even he that is ready to attack the great whale.

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

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

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

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

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