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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 the Lord of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning 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 gush out with waters.
 19For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.
 20Yet hear the word of the Lord, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbor 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 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. (2 Chron. 35:25)
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Jer. 9:17‑18• 17Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning 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 gush out with waters. (Jer. 9:17‑18)
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Amos 5:16• 16Therefore the Lord, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, 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• 17And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented. (Matt. 11:17)
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Mark 5:38• 38And he cometh to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and seeth the tumult, and them that wept and wailed greatly. (Mark 5:38)
their mourning.
or, a leviathan.
Job 41:1,10• 1Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?
 10None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to 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.