“Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.”
Job calls upon those who curse days and are skilled in rousing the sea-serpent (Leviathan) to curse the day of his birth, invoking the aid of cosmic powers and sorcerous practitioners. The reference to Leviathan—the primordial chaos monster—suggests an appeal to the destructive powers of chaos itself to undo the ordered creation that brought him forth. This invocation of mythic rebellion reveals the extremity of his desire to negate existence.
Church Fathers on Job 3:8
Let them curse it that curse the day, that are ready to rouse up Leviathan. In the old translation it is not so written, but, Let him curse it that hath cursed the day, even him who shall take the great whale. By which words it is clearly shewn, that the destruction of Antichrist, to be at the end of the world, is foreseen by the holy man. For the evil spirit, who by rights is night, at the end of the world passes himself for the day, in that he shews himself to men as God,…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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