Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
Let those who curse the day curse it, those who are skilled at rousing Leviathan.
New American Standard Bible
Who are
King James Version
Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
Holman Bible
cast a spell
those who are skilled in rousing Leviathan.
International Standard Version
Let whoever curses days curse it those who are ready to awaken monsters.
A Conservative Version
Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
American Standard Version
Let them curse it that curse the day, Who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
Amplified
“Let those curse it
Who are skilled in rousing up Leviathan.
Bible in Basic English
Let it be cursed by those who put a curse on the day; who are ready to make Leviathan awake.
Darby Translation
Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to rouse Leviathan;
Julia Smith Translation
They cursing the day shall curse it, they being ready to rouse up the sea monster.
King James 2000
Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to arouse leviathan.
Modern King James verseion
Let those curse it who curse the day, who are ready to stir up Leviathan.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
give it their curse also, even those that be ready to raise vp Leviathan.
NET Bible
Let those who curse the day curse it -- those who are prepared to rouse Leviathan.
New Heart English Bible
Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
The Emphasized Bible
Let day-cursers denounce it, Those skilled in rousing the dragon of the sky:
Webster
Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
World English Bible
Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
Youngs Literal Translation
Let the cursers of day mark it, Who are ready to wake up Leviathan.
Interlinear
Naqab
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 3:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job Regrets His Birth
7 Look, let that night become barren; let a joyful song not enter it. 8 Let those who curse the day curse it, those who are skilled at rousing Leviathan. 9 Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light but there be none, and let it not see [the] eyelids of dawn
Phrases
Cross References
Job 41:1
"Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook? Or {can you tie down its mouth with a cord}?
Job 41:10
[Is] it not fierce when somebody stirs it? Who [then] [is] he [who] would stand {before it}?
2 Chronicles 35:25
And Jeremiah uttered a lament for Josiah, and all the male and female singers have spoken in their laments about Josiah to this day. And they made them a requirement in Israel, and behold, they are written in the laments.
Job 41:25
{When it raises itself}, [the] mighty ones are terrified; they retreat because of its thrashing.
Jeremiah 9:17-18
Thus says Yahweh of hosts: "Consider closely, and call for the wailing women, so that they come, and for the skillful women, so that they come.
Amos 5:16
Therefore, thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, my Lord, "In all [of] the public squares [there will be] wailing, and in all [of] the streets [they will say], 'Alas, alas, alas!' They shall call [the] farmers to mourning and [to] wailing, to those who are skilled [in] lamentation.
Matthew 11:17
saying, 'We played the flute for you and you did not dance; we sang a lament and you did not mourn.'
Mark 5:38
And they came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue and saw a commotion, and [people] weeping and wailing loudly.