Job 3:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

Let those curse it who curse the day, who are ready to stir up their lamentation.

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  • Job 41:1 : 1 Can you draw out Leviathan with a hook, or his tongue with a cord which you let 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 raises himself up, the mighty are afraid; because of the crashing they are beside themselves.
  • Jer 9:17-18 : 17 Thus says the LORD of hosts, Consider and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the skilled 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, says thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the farmer to mourning, and such as are skilled in lamentation to wailing.
  • Matt 11:17 : 17 And saying, We have played the flute for you, and you have not danced; we have mourned for you, and you have not lamented.
  • Mark 5:38 : 38 And he came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and saw the tumult, and those who wept and wailed greatly.
  • 2 Chr 35:25 : 25 And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah, and all the singing men and the singing women spoke 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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  • Job 3:1-7
    7 verses
    83%

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

    2And Job spoke, and said,

    3Let the day perish on which I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a male child conceived.

    4Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, nor let the light shine upon it.

    5Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let blackness of the day terrify it.

    6As for that night, let darkness seize it; let it not be included among the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

    7Behold, let that night be barren, let no joyful shout come in it.

  • Job 3:9
    83%

    9Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it look for light, but have none; nor let it see the breaking of dawn:

  • Lam 3:65
    74%

    65Give them sorrow of heart, Your curse upon them.

  • Ps 109:28
    73%

    28Let them curse, but you bless; when they arise, let them be ashamed, but let your servant rejoice.

  • Isa 5:30
    73%

    30And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one looks to the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened by the clouds of the heavens.

  • Job 17:12
    72%

    12They change the night into day; the light is near because of darkness.

  • Jer 20:14
    72%

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

  • Job 24:16-18
    3 verses
    72%

    16In the dark they break into houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime; they do not know the light.

    17For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death; if one knows them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

    18He is as swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth; he does not behold the way of the vineyards.

  • Ps 109:17-18
    2 verses
    72%

    17As he loved cursing, so let it come to him; as he did not delight in blessing, so let it be far from him.

    18As he clothed himself with cursing as with a garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

  • Isa 8:21-22
    2 verses
    71%

    21And they shall pass through it, hard-pressed and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.

    22And they shall look to the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and they shall be driven into darkness.

  • Prov 27:14
    71%

    14He who blesses his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted as a curse to him.

  • Zeph 1:15
    70%

    15That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of devastation 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 daytime, and grope at midday as if it were night.

  • Mic 2:1
    70%

    1Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it because it is in the power of their hand.

  • Jer 20:16
    70%

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

  • Num 23:8
    70%

    8How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? Or how shall I defy whom the LORD has not defied?

  • Amos 5:20
    70%

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

  • Ps 140:10
    69%

    10Let burning coals fall upon them; let them be cast into the fire, into deep pits, that they rise not up again.

  • Job 21:30
    69%

    30That the wicked is reserved for the day of destruction? They shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

  • Job 18:6
    69%

    6The light shall be dark in his dwelling, and his lamp shall be put out with him.

  • Ps 35:8
    69%

    8Let destruction come upon him unexpectedly, and let his net that he has hidden catch himself; into that very destruction let him fall.

  • Amos 5:9
    69%

    9That strengthens the plundered against the strong, so that the plundered shall come against the fortress.

  • Job 38:15
    69%

    15And from the wicked their light is withheld, and the upraised arm is broken.

  • Amos 5:18
    69%

    18Woe to you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.

  • Job 22:11
    69%

    11Or darkness, that you cannot see; and an abundance of waters covers you.

  • Isa 17:14
    69%

    14And behold, at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of those who spoil us, and the lot of those who rob us.

  • Ps 59:15
    69%

    15Let them wander up and down for food, and grumble if they are not satisfied.

  • Ps 102:8
    69%

    8My enemies reproach me all day long; those who are mad against me are sworn against me.

  • Job 36:20
    69%

    20Do not desire the night, when people are cut off in their place.

  • Ps 58:8
    69%

    8As a snail that melts, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

  • Job 24:13
    69%

    13They are among those who rebel against the light; they know not its ways, nor abide in its paths.

  • Prov 30:11
    69%

    11There is a generation that curses their father, and does not bless their mother.

  • Ps 69:23-24
    2 verses
    69%

    23Let their eyes be darkened so that they do not see, and make their loins continually to shake.

    24Pour out your indignation upon them, and let your wrathful anger take hold of them.

  • Job 9:7
    69%

    7He commands the sun, and it does not rise; He seals up the stars.

  • Rom 3:14
    69%

    14'Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.'

  • Job 3:20
    68%

    20Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul;

  • Mic 3:6
    68%

    6Therefore night shall be unto you, that you shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that you shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.

  • Ps 37:22
    68%

    22For those blessed by him shall inherit the earth, but those cursed by him shall be cut off.

  • Job 30:13
    68%

    13They mar my path, they advance my calamity, they have no helper.