Job 3:8

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Job 3:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible

6 If only darkness had taken that night away! May it not appear among the days of the year; may it never be entered in any of the months.

7 Behold, may that night be barren; may no joyful voice come into it.

8 May it be cursed by those who curse the day — those prepared to rouse Leviathan.

9 May its morning stars grow dark; may it wait in vain for daylight; may it not see the breaking of dawn.

10 For that night did not shut the doors of the womb to hide the sorrow from my eyes.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

2 Chronicles 35:25

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.

Jeremiah 9:17

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Take note, and summon the wailing women; send for the most skillful among them.

Jeremiah 9:18

Let them come quickly and take up a lament over us, that our eyes may overflow with tears, and our eyelids may gush with water.

Amos 5:16

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.

Matthew 11:17

‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.’

Mark 5:38

When they arrived at the house of the synagogue leader, Jesus saw the commotion and the people weeping and wailing loudly.

Job 41:1

“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?

Job 41:10

No one is so fierce as to rouse Leviathan. Then who is able to stand against Me?