Holy Scripture

Job 3:8

A church father on this verse
“May this night or day of detestation become what the horrible and cruel dragon that is led from the sea to the earth deserves. Indeed the Hebrew and Syrian tradition interpret Leviathan to be the one about which David says, "There is that dragon that you have made to delude him." Even though the dragon seems to repres…”
Julian of Eclanum, 5th c. — EXPOSITION ON THE BOOK OF JOB 3:8

Source: Septuagint

Original

8But let him that curses that day curse it, Even he that is ready to attack the great whale.

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6Let that day and night be cursed, Let darkness carry them away; Let it not come into the days of the year, Neither let it be numbered with the days of the months.

7But let that night be pain, And let not mirth come upon it, nor joy.

— Job 3:8 —

9Let the stars of that night be darkened; Let it remain dark, and not come into light; And let it not see the morning star arise:

10Because it shut not up the gates of my mother’s womb, For so it would have removed sorrow from my eyes.

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