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Job 3

Job 3:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Let them curse
naqab (Hebrew #5344)
to puncture, literally (to perforate, with more or less violence) or figuratively (to specify, designate, libel)
KJV usage: appoint, blaspheme, bore, curse, express, with holes, name, pierce, strike through.
Pronounce: naw-kab'
Origin: a primitive root
it that curse
'arar (Hebrew #779)
to execrate
KJV usage: X bitterly curse.
Pronounce: aw-rar'
Origin: a primitive root
the day
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
, whoh are ready
`athiyd (Hebrew #6264)
prepared; by implication, skilful; feminine plural the future; also treasure
KJV usage: things that shall come, ready, treasures.
Pronounce: aw-theed'
Origin: from 6257
to raise up
`uwr (Hebrew #5782)
to wake (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: (a- )wake(-n, up), lift up (self), X master, raise (up), stir up (self).
Pronounce: oor
Origin: a primitive root (rather identical with 5783 through the idea of opening the eyes)
λtheir mourning
livyathan (Hebrew #3882)
a wreathed animal, i.e. a serpent (especially the crocodile or some other large sea- monster); figuratively, the constellation of the dragon; also as a symbol of Bab.
KJV usage: leviathan, mourning.
Pronounce: liv-yaw-thawn'
Origin: from 3867
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Jer. 9:17‑20• 17Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come, and send for the skilful women, that they may come;
 18and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids pour forth waters.
 19For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled, sorely put to shame! For we have forsaken the land, for they have cast down our dwellings.
 20Hear then the word of Jehovah, ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and each one her companion lamentation. (Jer. 9:17‑20)
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or, a leviathan.

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Ministry on This Verse

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who are ready.
2 Chron. 35:25• 25And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah; and all the singing men and singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations to this day; and they made them an ordinance for Israel. And behold, they are written in the lamentations. (2 Chron. 35:25)
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Jer. 9:17‑18• 17Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come, and send for the skilful women, that they may come;
 18and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids pour forth waters. (Jer. 9:17‑18)
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Amos 5:16• 16Therefore thus saith Jehovah, the God of hosts, the Lord: Wailing shall be in all broadways; and they shall say in all the streets, Alas! alas! And they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing. (Amos 5:16)
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Matt. 11:17• 17say, We have piped to you, and ye have not danced: we have mourned to you, and ye have not wailed. (Matt. 11:17)
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Mark 5:38• 38And he comes to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and sees the tumult, and people weeping and wailing greatly. (Mark 5:38)
their mourning.
or, a leviathan.
Job 41:1,10• 1Wilt thou draw out the leviathan with the hook, and press down his tongue with a cord?
 10None is so bold as to stir him up; and who is he that will stand before me? (Job 41:1,10)
• Verse 8 has been translated, “Let those who curse the day curse it, who are skilled in stirring up leviathan,” alluding to the heathen myth that a dragon devoured the sun and moon and so prevented the day. If this is correct, it shows how far Job had drifted in his thoughts, to turn thus to the superstitions of the heathen. (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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

JND Translation Notes

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See Job 41.1; Ps. 74.14; 104.26; Isa. 27.1.