Job 3:8
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May it be cursed by those who curse the day— those prepared to rouse Leviathan.
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"You have heard of the patience of Job," says the apostle, Jam 5:11. So we have, and of his impatience too. We wondered that a man should be so patient as he was (ch. 1 and Job 2:1-13), but we wonder also that a good man should be so impatient as he is in this chapter, where we find him cursing his day, and, in passion, I. Complaining that he was born (Job 3:1-10). II. Complaining that he did not die as soon as he was born (Job 3:11-19). III. Complaining that his life was now continued when he was in misery (Job 3:20-26). In this it must be owned that Job sinned with his lips, and it is written, not for our imitation, but our admonition, that he who things he stands may take heed lest he fall.
Open source ↗3:8 The expression experts at cursing refers to professional cursers such as Balaam (Num 22–24).
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The Hebrew and Greek words behind this passage, with Strong's numbers — from openscriptures (CC BY-SA).
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“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?
No one is so fierce as to rouse Leviathan. Then who is able to stand against Me?
Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: “There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets. The farmer will be summoned to mourn, and the mourners to wail.
When Leviathan rises up, the mighty are terrified; they withdraw before his thrashing.
‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.’
Then Jeremiah lamented over Josiah, and to this day all the choirs of men and women sing laments over Josiah. They established them as a statute for Israel, and indeed they are written in the Book of Laments.
When they arrived at the house of the synagogue leader, Jesus saw the commotion and the people weeping and wailing loudly.