Job 3:8

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יִקְּבֻ֥הוּ אֹרְרֵי־י֑וֹם הָ֝עֲתִידִ֗ים עֹרֵ֥ר לִוְיָתָֽן׃

Transliteration

yiqqəbûhû ʾōrərê-yôm hāʿătîdîm ʿōrēr liwyātān

Grammar Details

*yiqqəbûhû*: verb, Qal imperfect jussive, 3rd masculine plural with 3rd masculine singular suffix - let them curse it
*ʾōrərê-yôm*: verb, Qal participle, masculine plural construct + noun, masculine singular - cursers of day
*hāʿătîdîm*: definite article + verb, Piel participle, masculine plural - the ones skilled
*ʿōrēr*: verb, Polel infinitive construct - to rouse
*liwyātān*: noun, masculine singular - Leviathan

Word Meanings

*yiqqəbûhû*: curse it/abhor it/denounce it
*ʾōrərê*: cursers/those who execrate
*hāʿătîdîm*: those who are skilled/ready/prepared
*ʿōrēr*: to rouse/to awaken/to stir up
*liwyātān*: Leviathan/sea monster/dragon

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Job 41:1 : 1 Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?
Job 41:10 : 10 None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?
Job 41:25 : 25 When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.
Jer 9:17-18 : 17 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning 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 the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
Matt 11:17 : 17 And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.
Mark 5:38 : 38 And he cometh to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and seeth the tumult, and them that wept and wailed greatly.
2 Chr 35:25 : 25 And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.

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