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OET (OET-RV) May those who curse days, curse that one—
⇔ yes, those people who’re skillful enough to wake up the large sea monster.
OET-LV Curse_it [those_who]_curse (of)_a_day the_ready to_rouse Leviathan.
UHB יִקְּבֻ֥הוּ אֹרְרֵי־י֑וֹם הָ֝עֲתִידִ֗ים עֹרֵ֥ר לִוְיָתָֽן׃ ‡
(yiqqəⱱuhū ʼorərēy-yōm hāˊₐtīdiym ˊorēr livəyātān.)
Key: yellow:verbs.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).
ULT May the ones cursing a day curse it,
⇔ the ones skillful to awaken Leviathan.
UST There are magicians who know how to agitate the chaos monster. I want them to curse the day of my birth!
BSB May it be cursed by those who curse the day —
⇔ those prepared to rouse Leviathan.
OEB Accursed of sorcerers be that day–
⇔ Of those that are skilful to stir up Leviathan.
WEB Let them curse it who curse the day,
⇔ who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
NET Let those who curse the day curse it –
⇔ those who are prepared to rouse Leviathan.
LSV Let the cursers of day mark it,
Who are ready to wake up Leviathan.
FBV Those who place curses on certain days should curse it, those who have the power to raise Leviathan.
T4T I want those people who ◄curse/put evil spells on► days—those who know how to arouse/awaken the great sea monster—to curse that day.
LEB • those who are skilled at rousing Leviathan.
BBE Let it be cursed by those who put a curse on the day; who are ready to make Leviathan awake.
MOF No MOF JOB book available
JPS Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
ASV Let them curse it that curse the day,
⇔ Who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
DRA Let them curse it who curse the day. who are ready to raise up a leviathan:
YLT Let the cursers of day mark it, Who are ready to wake up Leviathan.
DBY Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to rouse Leviathan;
RV Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
WBS Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
KJB Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
BB Let them that curse the day, and that be redy to rayse vp mourning, geue it also their curse.
(Let them that curse the day, and that be redy to raise up mourning, give it also their curse.)
GNV Let them that curse the day, (being readie to renue their mourning) curse it.
CB geue it their curse also, euen those that be ready to rayse vp Leuiathan.
(geue it their curse also, even those that be ready to raise up Leuiathan.)
WYC Curse thei it, that cursen the dai, that ben redi to reise Leuyathan.
(Curse they it, that cursen the day, that been ready to raise Leuyathan.)
LUT Es verfluchen sie die Verflucher des Tages, und die da bereit sind, zu erwecken den Leviathan.
(It verfluchen they/she/them the Verflucher the Tages, and the there bereit sind, to erwecken the Leviathan.)
CLV Maledicant ei qui maledicunt diei, qui parati sunt suscitare Leviathan.
(Maledicant to_him who maledicunt diei, who parati are suscitare Leviathan.)
BRN But let him that curses that day curse it, even he that is ready to attack the great whale.
BrLXX Ἀλλὰ καταράσαιτο αὐτὴν ὁ καταρώμενος τὴν ἡμέραν ἐκείνην, ὁ μέλλων τὸ μέγα κῆτος χειρώσασθαι.
(Alla katarasaito autaʸn ho katarōmenos taʸn haʸmeran ekeinaʸn, ho mellōn to mega kaʸtos ⱪeirōsasthai.)
3:8 The expression experts at cursing refers to professional cursers such as Balaam (Num 22–24).
Complaints
The Bible generally depicts complaining as wrong. For example, God judged the Israelites for grumbling about their hardships in the wilderness (Num 14:27-37). Job complained mightily and earned God’s rebuke for it, yet God ultimately confirmed Job’s righteousness and rejected those who tried to stop him from complaining (Job 42:7-8).
Job’s fundamental complaint was that God did not give him a fair hearing to demonstrate his innocence. Job’s friends attacked him for trying to vindicate himself, but God upheld Job’s innocence. In a gracious but firm act of self-revelation, God rebuked Job for his overreaching self-defense and implied criticism of God’s fairness. God shifted Job’s focus away from his troubles and toward God himself (Job 38–41).
Scripture admonishes us to rejoice and give thanks in all situations (Eph 5:20; Phil 4:4; 1 Thes 5:16-18). It also calls us to endure through suffering and to persist in prayer (Jas 5:10-18). If we do want to complain in prayer, we should follow the pattern of the psalms, which lead us past ourselves and back to God (see, e.g., Ps 13). Job’s positive example (Jas 5:11) is not so much in how he responded to his troubles or to his comforters but in how he responded to God (Job 40:3-5; 42:1-6). In the midst of difficult and confusing situations that may precipitate a desire to complain, we can still acknowledge the sovereignty and goodness of God.
Passages for Further Study
Gen 4:13-14; Exod 16:2-18; Num 14:27-37; 1 Kgs 19:3-18; Job 3:1-26; 6:1–7:21; Pss 38; 39; 44; 73; Jer 20:14-18; Jon 4:1-11; Matt 27:46; John 6:41-59; 1 Cor 10:1-10; Eph 5:20; Phil 2:14-15; Jas 5:9-11
Note 1 topic: writing-pronouns
יִקְּבֻ֥הוּ
curse,it
The pronoun it refers to the day when Job was born. Job is alternating between speaking about that day and about the night when he was conceived. Alternate translation: “May … curse that day”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
אֹרְרֵי־י֑וֹם
curse day
Job assumes that his listeners will understand that by the ones cursing a day he is referring to sorcerers. People in this culture employed sorcerers in the belief that they could cause bad things to happen on a particular day to their enemies. For example, people might employ a sorcerer to try to ruin the day on which a person began an important journey or celebrated an important family occasion such as a wedding. You could indicate this in your translation if that would be helpful to your readers. Alternate translation: “professional sorcerers”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / nominaladj
הָ֝עֲתִידִ֗ים
the,ready
Job is using the adjective skillful as a noun to mean certain people. The word is plural, and the ULT adds the word ones to show that. Your language may use adjectives in the same way. If not, you can translate this word with an equivalent phrase. Alternate translation: “the people who have the skill”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
עֹרֵ֥ר לִוְיָתָֽן
rouse leviathan
The implication is that if sorcerers created chaos by awakening the chaos monster, there would no longer be any distinction between days, and so the day of Job’s birth would no longer have a distinct identity. You could say that explicitly if it would be helpful to your readers. Alternate translation: “to cause chaos among days” or “to destroy the distinct identity of the day on which I was born”
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
לִוְיָתָֽן
leviathan
As the General Introduction to Job explains, ancient peoples seem to have been aware of a large, fierce creature that lived in the ocean, which they called the “sea monster.” People in Job's culture regarded the sea as the realm of watery chaos, and they associated this sea monster with that chaos. That is the association that Job is making here, calling the sea monster by the name Leviathan. You could retain the name Leviathan in your translation. Alternatively, you could use a general expression to convey the idea here. Alternate translation: “the sea monster that is associated with chaos”