Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

“Let those curse it who curse the day,
Who are prepared to rouse Leviathan.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Let those who curse certain days
cast a spell on it,
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 curse the day,
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.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Let those who curse the day curse it, those who are skilled at rousing 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

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
it that curse
ארר 
'arar 
Usage: 63

the day
יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

עתיד 
`athiyd 
Usage: 5

to raise up
עוּר 
`uwr 
Usage: 80

Context Readings

Job Regrets His Birth

7 Behold, let that night be barren; let no joyful cry enter it. 8 “Let those curse it who curse the day,
Who are prepared to rouse Leviathan.
9 Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light, but have none, nor see the eyelids of the morning,

Cross References

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 that he dares to stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?

2 Chronicles 35:25

Jeremiah also uttered a lament for Josiah; and all the singing men and singing women have spoken of Josiah in their laments to this day. They made these a rule in Israel; behold, they are written in the Laments.

Job 41:25

When he raises himself up the mighty are afraid; at the crashing they are beside themselves.

Jeremiah 9:17-18

Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Consider, and call for the mourning women to come; send for the skillful women to come;

Amos 5:16

Therefore thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord: "In all the squares there shall be wailing, and in all the streets they shall say, 'Alas! Alas!' They shall call the farmers to mourning and to wailing those who are skilled in lamentation,

Matthew 11:17

"'We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.'

Mark 5:38

They came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and Jesus saw a commotion, people weeping and wailing loudly.

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