Job 3:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Let it be cursed by those who put a curse on the day; who are ready to make Leviathan awake.

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  • Job 41:1 : 1 He is so cruel that no one is ready to go against him. Who then is able to keep his place before me?
  • Job 41:10 : 10 Out of his mouth go burning lights, and flames of fire are jumping up.
  • Job 41:25 : 25 Everything which is high goes in fear of him; he is king over all the sons of pride.
  • Jer 9:17-18 : 17 This is what the Lord of armies has said: Take thought and send for the weeping women, so that they may come; and send for the wise women, so that they may come: 18 Let them quickly make cries of sorrow for us, so that drops may be flowing from our eyes till they are streaming with water.
  • Amos 5:16 : 16 So these are the words of the Lord, the God of armies, the Lord: There will be weeping in all the open spaces; and in all the streets they will say, Sorrow! sorrow! and they will get in the farmer to the weeping, and the makers of sad songs to give cries of grief.
  • Matt 11:17 : 17 We made music for you and you did not take part in the dance; we gave cries of sorrow and you made no signs of grief.
  • Mark 5:38 : 38 And they came to the house of the ruler of the Synagogue; and he saw people running this way and that, and weeping and crying loudly.
  • 2 Chr 35:25 : 25 And Jeremiah made a song of grief for Josiah; and to this day Josiah is named by all the makers of melody, men and women, in their songs of grief; they made it a rule in Israel; and the songs are recorded among the songs of grief.

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  • Job 3:1-7
    7 verses
    83%

    1 Then, opening his mouth, and cursing the day of his birth,

    2 Job made answer and said,

    3 Let destruction take the day of my birth, and the night on which it was said, A man child has come into the world.

    4 That day--let it be dark; let not God take note of it from on high, and let not the light be shining on it;

    5 Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it.

    6 That night--let the thick dark take it; let it not have joy among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.

    7 As for that night, let it have no fruit; let no voice of joy be sounded in it;

  • 9 Let its morning stars be dark; let it be looking for light, but may it not have any; let it not see the eyes of the dawn.

  • 65 You will let their hearts be covered over with your curse on them.

  • 28 They may give curses but you give blessing; when they come up against me, put them to shame; but let your servant be glad.

  • 30 And his voice will be loud over him in that day like the sounding of the sea: and if a man's eyes are turned to the earth, it is all dark and full of trouble; and the light is made dark by thick clouds.

  • 12 They are changing night into day; they say, The light is near the dark.

  • 14 A curse on the day of my birth: let there be no blessing on the day when my mother had me.

  • Job 24:16-18
    3 verses
    72%

    16 In the dark he makes holes in the walls of houses: in the daytime they are shutting themselves up, they have no knowledge of the light.

    17 For the middle of the night is as morning to them, they are not troubled by the fear of the dark.

    18 They go quickly on the face of the waters; their heritage is cursed in the earth; the steps of the crusher of grapes are not turned to their vine-garden.

  • Ps 109:17-18
    2 verses
    72%

    17 As he took pleasure in cursing, so let it come on him; and as he had no delight in blessing, let it be far from him.

    18 He put on cursing like a robe, and it has come into his body like water, and into his bones like oil.

  • Isa 8:21-22
    2 verses
    71%

    21 And he will go through the land in bitter trouble and in need of food; and when he is unable to get food, he will become angry, cursing his king and his God, and his eyes will be turned to heaven on high;

    22 And he will be looking down on the earth, and there will be trouble and dark clouds, black night where there is no seeing.

  • 14 He who gives a blessing to his friend with a loud voice, getting up early in the morning, will have it put to his account as a curse.

  • 15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and sorrow, a day of wasting and destruction, a day of dark night and deep shade, a day of cloud and thick dark.

  • 14 In the daytime it becomes dark for them, and in the sunlight they go feeling about as if it was night.

  • 1 A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power.

  • 16 May that man be like the towns overturned by the Lord without mercy: let a cry for help come to his ears in the morning, and the sound of war in the middle of the day;

  • 8 How may I put curses on him who is not cursed by God? how may I be angry with him with whom the Lord is not angry?

  • 20 Will not the day of the Lord be dark and not light? even very dark, with no light shining in it?

  • 10 Let burning flames come down on them: let them be put into the fire, and into deep waters, so that they may not get up again.

  • 30 How the evil man goes free in the day of trouble, and has salvation in the day of wrath?

  • 6 The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out.

  • 8 Let destruction come on them without their knowledge; let them be taken themselves in their secret nets, falling into the same destruction.

  • 9 Who sends sudden destruction on the strong, so that destruction comes on the walled town.

  • 15 And from the evil-doers their light is kept back, and the arm of pride is broken.

  • 18 Sorrow to you who are looking for the day of the Lord! what is the day of the Lord to you? it is dark and not light.

  • 11 Your light is made dark so that you are unable to see, and you are covered by a mass of waters.

  • 14 In the evening there is fear, and in the morning they are gone. This is the fate of those who take our goods, and the reward of those who violently take our property for themselves.

  • 15 Let them go wandering up and down in search of food, and be there all night if they have not enough.

  • 8 My haters say evil of me all day; those who are violent against me make use of my name as a curse.

  • 20 ...

  • 8 Let them be like an after-birth which is turned to water and comes to an end; like the fruit of a woman who gives birth before her time, let them not see the sun.

  • 13 Then there are those who are haters of the light, who have no knowledge of its ways, and do not go in them.

  • 11 There is a generation who put a curse on their father, and do not give a blessing to their mother.

  • Ps 69:23-24
    2 verses
    69%

    23 Let their eyes be blind so that they may not see; let their bodies for ever be shaking.

    24 Let your curse come on them; let the heat of your wrath overtake them.

  • 7 Who gives orders to the sun, and it does not give its light; and who keeps the stars from shining.

  • 14 Whose mouth is full of curses and bitter words:

  • 20 Why does he give light to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul;

  • 6 For this cause it will be night for you, without a vision; and it will be dark for you, without knowledge of the future; the sun will go down over the prophets, and the day will be black over them.

  • 22 Those who have his blessing will have the earth for their heritage; but those who are cursed by him will be cut off.

  • 13 They have made waste my roads, with a view to my destruction; his bowmen come round about me;