Job 3:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.

Job 3:8 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 41:1
Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?
Job 41:10
None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?
Matthew 11:17
And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.
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.
Job 41:25
When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Blessing Despair Despondency Discouragement Enquiring of God Importunity Prayer

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-10)

Long was Job’s heart hot within him; and, while he was musing, the fire burned, and the more for being stifled and suppressed. At length he spoke with his tongue, but not such a good word as David spoke after a long pause: Lord, make me to know my end, Ps. 39:3, 4. Seven days the prophet Ezekiel sat down astonished with the captives, and then (probably on the sabbath day) the word of the Lord came…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 8)

8. them ... curse the day--If “mourning” be the right rendering in the latter clause of this verse, these words refer to the hired mourners of the dead (Jr 9:17). But the Hebrew for “mourning” elsewhere always denotes an animal, whether it be the crocodile or some huge serpent (Is 27:1), such as is meant by “leviathan.” Therefore, the expression, “cursers of day,” refers to magicians, who were bel…