Verse 8

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

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.