Job 3:8

2 Chronicles 35:25; Amos 5:16; Jeremiah 9:17; Jeremiah 9:18; Job 41:1; Job 41:10; Mark 5:38; Matthew 11:17

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Let them curse it who curse the day - This entire verse is exceedingly difficult, and many different expositions have been given of it. It seems...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

Let them curse it that curse the day, who are (f) ready to raise up their mourning. (f) Who curse the day of their birth, let them lay that curse on...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job's Lamentation. Here the later poem begins, and at once we pass into another world. The patient Job of the Volksbuch is gone, and we have instea...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

their mourning . a dragon. Referring probably to what the constellation signified.
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning. Let them curse it that curse the day - This translation is scarcely i...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning— Houbigant renders it, May those curse it, who dread the day, who are ready to rouze the L...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning. Them ... that curse the day. If mourning be the right renderi...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job Curses his Day Job curses the day of his birth. He asks why he did not die at birth: why should his wretched life be prolonged? We are now co...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Let them curse it that curse the day ] A reference to magicians who professed to be able to cast spells on a day and make it unlucky, apparently cau...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

That curse the day — i.e., Let those who proclaim days unlucky or accursed curse that day as pre-eminently so; or let them recollect that day as a...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

VI. THE CRY FROM THE DEPTH Job 3:1-26 Job SPEAKS WHILE the friends of Job sat beside him that dreary week of silence, each of them was medita...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Is Life Worth Living? Job 3:1-26 In the closing paragraphs of the previous chapter three friends arrive. Teman is Edom; for Shuah see Genesis...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Silent sympathy always creates an opportunity for grief to express itself. Job's outcry was undoubtedly an answer to their sympathy. So far, it was g...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(8) Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning. (9) Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look fo...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Let them curse it that curse the day ,.... Their own day, either their birthday, or any day on which evil befalls them; and now such as are used to...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning. Ver. 8. Let them curse it, that curse the day ] As those atri et...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Let them curse it that curse the day That is, their birth-day: when their afflictions move them to curse their own birth-day, let them remember min...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

JOB'S BITTER COMPLAINT (vv.1-26) Though Job would not dare to curse God for his trouble, yet it seems that the presence of his friends only caus...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job Curses His Day. B. C. 1520. 1 Afte...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

That curse the day, i.e. their day, to wit, their birthday; for the pronoun is here omitted for the metre's sake; for this and the following Chapte...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Notes Job 3:5 . “ Let the blackness of the day terrify it .” Margin, “ Let them terrify it as those who have a bitter day ” The expression כִּמרִ...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 3:1 . After this opened Job his mouth. The Masoretic Jews, as well as our modern divines, seem agreed that Job now began the drama, and spak...
The Biblical Illustrator

After this opened Job his month, and cursed his day. The peril of impulsive speech In regard to this chapter, containing the first speech of Jo...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION The "Historical Introduction" ended, we come upon a long colloquy, in which the several dramatis personae speak for themselves, the...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job Curses the day of His Birth. Up till now Job had suppressed all thoughts of rebellion against God, every notion of dissatisfaction and impati...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Let them curse it that curse the day, the sorcerers of old, whose ban was thought to bewitch a day so as to make it a day of misfortune, who are rea...
Wells of Living Water Commentary

Job's Sorrows and Sighs Job 2:9-13 ; Job 3:1-26 INTRODUCTORY WORDS In this study we will consider the verses which lie in the second chapter...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The day — Their birth — day: when their afflictions move them to curse their own birth — day, let them remember mine also, and bestow some curses u...

⁸ Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.

Related Commentaries of Job 3:8

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 3:8