Job 3:8

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

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

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC

Let them curse it who curse the day. who are ready to raise up a leviathan:

GNV

Let them that curse the day, (being readie to renue their mourning) curse it.

JPS

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

LXXE

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

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WLC

יִקְּבֻ֥הוּ אֹרְרֵי־י֑וֹם הָ֝עֲתִידִ֗ים עֹרֵ֥ר לִוְיָתָֽן׃

LXX-Br

Ἀλλὰ καταράσαιτο αὐτὴν ὁ καταρώμενος τὴν ἡμέραν ἐκείνην, ὁ μέλλων τὸ μέγα κῆτος χειρώσασθαι.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Job 41:1“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?
• Job 41:10No one is so fierce as to rouse Leviathan. Then who is able to stand against Me?
• Jeremiah 9:17–18This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Take note, and summon the wailing women; send for the most skillful among them. Let them come quickly and take up a lament over us, that our eyes may overflow with tears, and our…
• 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 be summoned to mourn, and the mourners…
• 2 Chronicles 35:25Then Jeremiah lamented over Josiah, and to this day all the choirs of men and women sing laments over Josiah. They established them as a statute for Israel, and indeed they are written in the Book of Laments.
• Mark 5:38When they arrived at the house of the synagogue leader, Jesus saw the commotion and the people weeping and wailing loudly.
• Matthew 11:17‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.’
• Job 41:25When Leviathan rises up, the mighty are terrified; they withdraw before his thrashing.

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