Job 3:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ Let those curse it who curse the Sea, those who are skilled to rouse up Leviathan.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ Let those curse it who curse the day, who are skilled in rousing up Leviathan.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ Let them curse it that curse the day, Who are ready to rouse up leviathan.

Common English Bible

⁸ May those who curse the day curse it, those with enough skill to awaken Leviathan.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ May they curse it, who curse the day, who are prepared to awaken a leviathan.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Job 3:8 Cross References

2 Chronicles 35:25

Jeremiah also uttered a lament for Josiah, and all the singing men and singing women have spoken of Josiah in their laments to this day. They made these a custom in Israel; they are recorded in the Laments.

Job 3:7

Yes, let that night be barren; let no joyful cry be heard in it.

Job 3:9

Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light but have none; may it not see the eyelids of the morning—

Job 41:1

“Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook or press down its tongue with a cord?

Job 41:10

No one is so fierce as to dare to stir it up. Who can stand before it?

Job 41:25

When it raises itself up the gods are afraid; at the crashing they are beside themselves.

Isaiah 27:1

On that day the Lord with his cruel and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.

Amos 5:16

Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of hosts, the Lord: In all the squares there shall be wailing, and in all the streets they shall say, “Alas! Alas!” They shall call the farmers to mourning and those skilled in lamentation to wailing;

Matthew 11:17

‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did not mourn.’

Mark 5:38

When they came to the synagogue leader’s house, he saw a commotion, people weeping and wailing loudly.