Job 3:8

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Let those who curse the day curse it– those who are prepared to rouse Leviathan.

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Job 41:1 : 1 The Description of Leviathan(40:25)“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook, and tie down its tongue with a rope?
  • Job 41:10 : 10 Is it not fierce when it is awakened? Who is he, then, who can stand before it?
  • Job 41:25 : 25 When it rises up, the mighty are terrified, at its thrashing about they withdraw.
  • Jer 9:17-18 : 17 The LORD of Heaven’s Armies told me to say to this people,“Take note of what I say. Call for the women who mourn for the dead! Summon those who are the most skilled at it!” 18 I said,“Indeed, let them come quickly and sing a song of mourning for us. Let them wail loudly until tears stream from our own eyes and our eyelids overflow with water.
  • Amos 5:16 : 16 Because of Israel’s sins this is what the Lord, the LORD God of Heaven’s Armies, says:“In all the squares there will be wailing, in all the streets they will mourn the dead. They will tell the field workers to lament and the professional mourners to wail.
  • Matt 11:17 : 17 ‘We played the flute for you, yet you did not dance; we wailed in mourning, yet you did not weep.’
  • Mark 5:38 : 38 They came to the house of the synagogue leader where he saw noisy confusion and people weeping and wailing loudly.
  • 2 Chr 35:25 : 25 Jeremiah composed laments for Josiah which all the male and female singers use to mourn Josiah to this very day. It has become customary in Israel to sing these; they are recorded in the Book of Laments.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Job 3:1-7
    7 verses
    83%

    1II. Job’s Dialogue With His Friends(3:1-27:33) Job Regrets His Birth After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day he was born.

    2Job spoke up and said:

    3“Let the day on which I was born perish, and the night that said,‘A man has been conceived!’

    4That day– let it be darkness; let not God on high regard it, nor let light shine on it!

    5Let darkness and the deepest shadow claim it; let a cloud settle on it; let whatever blackens the day terrify it!

    6That night– let darkness seize it; let it not be included among the days of the year; let it not enter among the number of the months!

    7Indeed, let that night be barren; let no shout of joy penetrate it!

  • Job 3:9
    83%

    9Let its morning stars be darkened; let it wait for daylight but find none, nor let it see the first rays of dawn,

  • Lam 3:65
    74%

    65Give them a distraught heart; may your curse be on them!

  • Ps 109:28
    73%

    28They curse, but you will bless. When they attack, they will be humiliated, but your servant will rejoice.

  • Isa 5:30
    73%

    30At that time they will growl over their prey, it will sound like sea waves crashing against rocks. One will look out over the land and see the darkness of disaster, clouds will turn the light into darkness.

  • Job 17:12
    72%

    12These men change night into day; they say,‘The light is near in the face of darkness.’

  • Jer 20:14
    72%

    14Cursed be the day I was born! May that day not be blessed when my mother gave birth to me.

  • Job 24:16-18
    3 verses
    72%

    16In the dark the robber breaks into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.

    17For all of them, the morning is to them like deep darkness; they are friends with the terrors of darkness.

    18“You say,‘He is foam on the face of the waters; their portion of the land is cursed so that no one goes to their vineyard.

  • Ps 109:17-18
    2 verses
    72%

    17He loved to curse others, so those curses have come upon him. He had no desire to bless anyone, so he has experienced no blessings.

    18He made cursing a way of life, so curses poured into his stomach like water and seeped into his bones like oil.

  • Isa 8:21-22
    2 verses
    71%

    21They will pass through the land destitute and starving. Their hunger will make them angry, and they will curse their king and their God as they look upward.

    22When one looks out over the land, he sees distress and darkness, gloom and anxiety, darkness and people forced from the land.

  • Prov 27:14
    71%

    14If someone blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, it will be counted as a curse to him.

  • Zeph 1:15
    70%

    15That day will be a day of God’s anger, a day of distress and hardship, a day of devastation and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and dark skies,

  • Job 5:14
    70%

    14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope about in the noontime as if it were night.

  • Mic 2:1
    70%

    1Land Robbers Will Lose Their Land Beware wicked schemers, those who devise calamity as they lie in bed. As soon as morning dawns they carry out their plans, because they have the power to do so.

  • Jer 20:16
    70%

    16May that man be like the cities that the LORD destroyed without showing any mercy. May he hear a cry of distress in the morning and a battle cry at noon.

  • Num 23:8
    70%

    8How can I curse one whom God has not cursed, or how can I denounce one whom the LORD has not denounced?

  • Amos 5:20
    70%

    20Don’t you realize the LORD’s day of judgment will bring darkness, not light– gloomy blackness, not bright light?

  • Ps 140:10
    69%

    10May he rain down fiery coals upon them! May he throw them into the fire! From bottomless pits they will not escape.

  • Job 21:30
    69%

    30that the evil man is spared from the day of his misfortune, that he is delivered from the day of God’s wrath?

  • Job 18:6
    69%

    6The light in his tent grows dark; his lamp above him is extinguished.

  • Ps 35:8
    69%

    8Let destruction take them by surprise! Let the net they hid catch them! Let them fall into destruction!

  • Amos 5:9
    69%

    9He flashes destruction down upon the strong so that destruction overwhelms the fortified places.)

  • Job 38:15
    69%

    15Then from the wicked the light is withheld, and the arm raised in violence is broken.

  • Amos 5:18
    69%

    18The Lord Demands Justice Woe to those who wish for the day of the LORD! Why do you want the LORD’s day of judgment to come? It will bring darkness, not light.

  • Job 22:11
    69%

    11why it is so dark you cannot see, and why a flood of water covers you.

  • Isa 17:14
    69%

    14In the evening there is sudden terror; by morning they vanish. This is the fate of those who try to plunder us, the destiny of those who try to loot us!

  • Ps 59:15
    69%

    15They wander around looking for something to eat; they refuse to sleep until they are full.

  • Ps 102:8
    69%

    8All day long my enemies taunt me; those who mock me use my name in their curses.

  • Job 36:20
    69%

    20Do not long for the cover of night to drag people away from their homes.

  • Ps 58:8
    69%

    8Let them be like a snail that melts away as it moves along! Let them be like stillborn babies that never see the sun!

  • Job 24:13
    69%

    13There are those who rebel against the light; they do not know its ways and they do not stay on its paths.

  • Prov 30:11
    69%

    11There is a generation who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.

  • Ps 69:23-24
    2 verses
    69%

    23May their eyes be blinded! Make them shake violently!

    24Pour out your judgment on them! May your raging anger overtake them!

  • Job 9:7
    69%

    7he who commands the sun and it does not shine and seals up the stars;

  • Rom 3:14
    69%

    14“Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”

  • Job 3:20
    68%

    20Longing for Death“Why does God give light to one who is in misery, and life to those whose soul is bitter,

  • Mic 3:6
    68%

    6Therefore night will fall, and you will receive no visions; it will grow dark, and you will no longer be able to read the omens. The sun will set on these prophets, and the daylight will turn to darkness over their heads.

  • Ps 37:22
    68%

    22Surely those favored by the LORD will possess the land, but those rejected by him will be wiped out.

  • Job 30:13
    68%

    13They destroy my path; they succeed in destroying me without anyone assisting them.