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Job 3:8 — King James Version← Study notes

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


Job 3:8Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Job 3:86 words
HebrewMeaning
יִקְּבֻ֥/הוּyiqəbuhw
appointverbH5344
blaspheme · bore · curse · express ···
אֹרְרֵיʾōrərēy
cursers ofverbH779
י֑וֹםywōm
a daynounH3117
always · chronicals · continually · daily ···
הָ֝/עֲתִידִ֗יםhāʿătiydiym
the ones readyparticleH6264
ready · treasures
עֹרֵ֥רʿōrēr
to rouseverbH5782
up) · lift up · master · raise ···
לִוְיָתָֽןliwəyātān
LeviathannounH3882
mourning
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

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,…

Gregory the Great · 6th century · Morals on Job, Book 4 §13
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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