Job 3:8 Cross References - LEB

⁸ Let those who curse the day curse it, those who are skilled at rousing Leviathan.

²⁵ And Jeremiah uttered a lament for Josiah, and all the male and female singers have spoken in their laments about Josiah to this day. And they made them a requirement in Israel, and behold, they are written in the laments.

¹ * "Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook? Or* _⌊can you tie down its mouth with a cord_⌋?*

¹⁰ Is it not fierce when somebody stirs it? Who then is he who would stand _⌊before it_⌋?*

²⁵ _⌊When it raises itself_⌋,* the mighty ones are terrified; they retreat because of its thrashing.

¹⁷ Thus says Yahweh of hosts:
"Consider closely, and call for the wailing women, so that they come, and for the skillful women, so that they come. ¹⁸ And let them hasten, and let them lift up wailing over us, so that our eyes may melt with tears, and our eyelids may flow with water.

¹⁶ Therefore, thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, my Lord, "In all of the public squares there will be wailing, and in all of the streets they will say, 'Alas, alas, alas!' They shall call the farmers to mourning and to wailing, to those who are skilled in lamentation.

¹⁷ saying,
'We played the flute for you and you did not dance; we sang a lament and you did not mourn.'

³⁸ And they came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue and saw a commotion, and people weeping and wailing loudly.