Job 3:8
Good News Translation
Tell the sorcerers to curse that day, those who know how to control Leviathan.

New Revised Standard Version
Let those curse it who curse the Sea, those who are skilled to rouse up Leviathan.

Contemporary English Version
Let those with magic powers place a curse on that day.

New American Bible
Let them curse it who curse the Sea, those skilled at disturbing Leviathan!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to raise up a leviathan:

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Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to raise up a leviathan:

who are ready.

2 Chronicles 35:25 Particularly Jeremias: whose lamentations for Josias all the singing men and singing women repeat unto this day, and it became like a law in Israel: Behold it is found written in the Lamentations.

Jeremiah 9:17,18 Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, and let them come: and send to them that are wise women, and let them make haste: . . .

Amos 5:16 Therefore thus saith the Lord the God of hosts the sovereign Lord: In every street there shall be wailing: and in all places that are without, they shall say: Alas, alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful in lamentation to lament.

Matthew 11:17 Who crying to their companions say: We have piped to you, and you have not danced: we have lamented, and you have not mourned.

Mark 5:38 And they cone to the house of the ruler of the synagogue; and he seeth a tumult, and people weeping and wailing much.

their mourning.

Job 41:1,10 Canst thou draw out the leviathan with a hook, or canst thou tie his tongue with a cord? . . .

Context
Job Laments His Birth
7Let that night be solitary, and not worthy of praise. 8Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to raise up a leviathan:9Let the stars be darkened with the mist thereof: let it expect light, and not see it, nor the rising of the dawning of the day:…
Cross References
Job 3:7
Let that night be solitary, and not worthy of praise.

Job 3:9
Let the stars be darkened with the mist thereof: let it expect light, and not see it, nor the rising of the dawning of the day:

Job 41:1
Canst thou draw out the leviathan with a hook, or canst thou tie his tongue with a cord?

Job 41:10
I will not stir him up, like one that is cruel, for who can resist my countenance?

Job 41:25
When he shall raise him up, the angels shall fear, and being affrighted shall purify themselves.

Isaiah 27:1
In that day the Lord with his hard, and great, and strong sword shall visit leviathan the bar serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent, and shall slay the whale that is in the sea.

Job 3:7
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