Job 3:8


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

Job 41:1

Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook?
Or press down his tongue with a cord?

Job 41:10


“No one is so fierce [and foolhardy] that he dares to stir up Leviathan;
Who then is he who can stand before Me [or dares to contend with Me, the beast’s creator]?

2 Chronicles 35:25

Then Jeremiah sung a lament (funeral song) for Josiah, and all the male and female singers have spoken about Josiah in their laments to this day. They made the songs an ordinance in Israel; behold, they are written in the Lamentations.

Job 41:25


“When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid;
Because of the crashing they are bewildered.

Jeremiah 9:17-18

Thus says the Lord of hosts,

“Consider and call for the mourning women to come;
Send for the wailing women to come.

Amos 5:16

Therefore, thus says the Lord God of hosts, the Lord,

“There is wailing in all the public plazas,
And in all the streets they say, ‘Alas! Alas!’
And they call the farmers to mourning [for those who have died]
And professional mourners to wailing.

Matthew 11:17

and say ‘We piped the flute for you [playing wedding], and you did not dance; we wailed sad dirges [playing funeral], and you did not mourn and cry aloud.’

Mark 5:38

They came to the house of the synagogue official; and He looked [with understanding] at the uproar and commotion, and people loudly weeping and wailing [in mourning].

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Their mourning

Bible References

Who are ready

2 Chronicles 35:25
Then Jeremiah sung a lament (funeral song) for Josiah, and all the male and female singers have spoken about Josiah in their laments to this day. They made the songs an ordinance in Israel; behold, they are written in the Lamentations.
Jeremiah 9:17
Thus says the Lord of hosts,

“Consider and call for the mourning women to come;
Send for the wailing women to come.
Amos 5:16
Therefore, thus says the Lord God of hosts, the Lord,

“There is wailing in all the public plazas,
And in all the streets they say, ‘Alas! Alas!’
And they call the farmers to mourning [for those who have died]
And professional mourners to wailing.
Matthew 11:17
and say ‘We piped the flute for you [playing wedding], and you did not dance; we wailed sad dirges [playing funeral], and you did not mourn and cry aloud.’
Mark 5:38
They came to the house of the synagogue official; and He looked [with understanding] at the uproar and commotion, and people loudly weeping and wailing [in mourning].

Their mourning

Job 41:1
Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook?
Or press down his tongue with a cord?