Job 3:8

American Standard Version (1901)

Let them curse it that curse the day, Who are ready to rouse up leviathan.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 41:1 : 1 Canst thou draw out leviathan with a fishhook? Or press down his tongue with a cord?
  • Job 41:10 : 10 None is so fierce that he dare stir him up; Who then is he that can stand before me?
  • Job 41:25 : 25 When he raiseth himself up, the mighty are afraid: By reason of consternation they are beside themselves.
  • Jer 9:17-18 : 17 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the skilful women, that they may come: 18 and 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.
  • Amos 5:16 : 16 Therefore thus saith Jehovah, the God of hosts, the Lord: Wailing shall be in all the broad ways; and they shall say in all the streets, Alas! Alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful in lamentation to wailing.
  • Matt 11:17 : 17 and say, We piped unto you, and ye did not dance; we wailed, and ye did not mourn.
  • Mark 5:38 : 38 And they come to the house of the ruler of the synagogue; and he beholdeth a tumult, and [many] weeping and wailing greatly.
  • 2 Chr 35:25 : 25 And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations unto this day; and they made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 3:1-7
    7 verses
    83%

    1After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.

    2And Job answered and said:

    3Let the day perish wherein I was born, And the night which said, There is a man-child conceived.

    4Let that day be darkness; Let not God from above seek for it, Neither let the light shine upon it.

    5Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own; Let a cloud dwell upon it; Let all that maketh black the day terrify it.

    6As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it: Let it not rejoice among the days of the year; Let it not come into the number of the months.

    7Lo, let that night be barren; Let no joyful voice come therein.

  • Job 3:9
    83%

    9Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark: Let it look for light, but have none; Neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning:

  • Lam 3:65
    74%

    65Thou wilt give them hardness of heart, thy curse unto them.

  • Ps 109:28
    73%

    28Let them curse, but bless thou: When they arise, they shall be put to shame, But thy servant shall rejoice.

  • Isa 5:30
    73%

    30And they shall roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold, darkness [and] distress; and the light is darkened in the clouds thereof.

  • Job 17:12
    72%

    12They change the night into day: The light, [say they], is near unto the darkness.

  • Jer 20:14
    72%

    14Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.

  • Job 24:16-18
    3 verses
    72%

    16In the dark they dig through houses: They shut themselves up in the day-time; They know not the light.

    17For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness; For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

    18Swiftly they [pass away] upon the face of the waters; Their portion is cursed in the earth: They turn not into the way of the vineyards.

  • Ps 109:17-18
    2 verses
    72%

    17Yea, he loved cursing, and it came unto him; And he delighted not in blessing, and it was far from him.

    18He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment, And it came into his inward parts like water, And like oil into his bones.

  • Isa 8:21-22
    2 verses
    71%

    21And they shall pass through it, sore distressed and hungry; and it shall come to pass that, when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse by their king and by their God, and turn their faces upward:

    22and they shall look unto the earth, and behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and into thick darkness [they shall be] driven away.

  • Prov 27:14
    71%

    14He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, It shall be counted a curse to him.

  • Zeph 1:15
    70%

    15That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,

  • Job 5:14
    70%

    14They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.

  • Mic 2:1
    70%

    1Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.

  • Jer 20:16
    70%

    16And let that man be as the cities which Jehovah overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime;

  • Num 23:8
    70%

    8How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? And how shall I defy, whom Jehovah hath not defied?

  • Amos 5:20
    70%

    20Shall not the day of Jehovah be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

  • Ps 140:10
    69%

    10Let burning coals fall upon them: Let them be cast into the fire, Into deep pits, whence they shall not rise.

  • Job 21:30
    69%

    30That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath?

  • Job 18:6
    69%

    6The light shall be dark in his tent, And his lamp above him shall be put out.

  • Ps 35:8
    69%

    8Let destruction come upon him unawares; And let his net that he hath hid catch himself: With destruction let him fall therein.

  • Amos 5:9
    69%

    9that bringeth sudden destruction upon the strong, so that destruction cometh upon the fortress.

  • Job 38:15
    69%

    15And from the wicked their light is withholden, And the high arm is broken.

  • Amos 5:18
    69%

    18Woe unto you that desire the day of Jehovah! Wherefore would ye have the day of Jehovah? It is darkness, and not light.

  • Job 22:11
    69%

    11Or darkness, so that thou canst not see, And abundance of waters cover thee.

  • Isa 17:14
    69%

    14At eventide, behold, terror; [and] before the morning they are not. This is the portion of them that despoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.

  • Ps 59:15
    69%

    15They shall wander up and down for food, And tarry all night if they be not satisfied.

  • Ps 102:8
    69%

    8Mine enemies reproach me all the day; They that are mad against me do curse by me.

  • Job 36:20
    69%

    20Desire not the night, When peoples are cut off in their place.

  • Ps 58:8
    69%

    8[ Let them be] as a snail which melteth and passeth away, [Like] the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun.

  • Job 24:13
    69%

    13These are of them that rebel against the light; They know not the ways thereof, Nor abide in the paths thereof.

  • Prov 30:11
    69%

    11There is a generation that curse their father, And bless not their mother.

  • Ps 69:23-24
    2 verses
    69%

    23Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see; And make their loins continually to shake.

    24Pour out thine indignation upon them, And let the fierceness of thine anger overtake them.

  • Job 9:7
    69%

    7That commandeth the sun, and it riseth not, And sealeth up the stars;

  • Rom 3:14
    69%

    14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

  • Job 3:20
    68%

    20Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto the bitter in soul;

  • Mic 3:6
    68%

    6Therefore it shall be night unto you, that ye shall have no vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be black over them.

  • Ps 37:22
    68%

    22For such as are blessed of him shall inherit the land; And they that are cursed of him shall be cut off.

  • Job 30:13
    68%

    13They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, [Even] men that have no helper.