Job 3:8

New English Translation

Let those who curse the day curse it – those who are prepared to rouse Leviathan.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 35:25

Jeremiah composed laments for Josiah which all the male and female singers use to mourn Josiah to this very day. It has become customary in Israel to sing these; they are recorded in the Book of Laments.

Job 3:7

Indeed, let that night be barren; let no shout of joy penetrate it!

Job 3:9

Let its morning stars be darkened; let it wait for daylight but find none, nor let it see the first rays of dawn,

Job 41:1

(40:25) “Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook, and tie down its tongue with a rope?

Job 41:10

Is it not fierce when it is awakened? Who is he, then, who can stand before it?

Job 41:25

When it rises up, the mighty are terrified, at its thrashing about they withdraw.

Isaiah 27:1

At that time the Lord will punish with his destructive, great, and powerful sword Leviathan the fast-moving serpent, Leviathan the squirming serpent; he will kill the sea monster.

Amos 5:16

Because of Israel’s sins this is what the Lord, the God who commands armies, the sovereign One, says: “In all the squares there will be wailing, in all the streets they will mourn the dead. They will tell the field workers to lament and the professional mourners to wail.

Matthew 11:17

‘We played the flute for you, yet you did not dance; we wailed in mourning, yet you did not weep.’

Mark 5:38

They came to the house of the synagogue ruler where he saw noisy confusion and people weeping and wailing loudly.