Job 3:7-9

Contemporary English Version

⁷Don't let children be created
or joyful shouts be heard
    ever again in that night.
⁸Let those with magic powers^[a]
    place a curse on that day.
⁹Darken its morning stars
    and remove all hope of light,

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Footnotes

3.8 those with magic powers: The Hebrew text has “those who can place a curse on the day and rouse up Leviathan,” which was some kind of sea monster. God's victory over this monster sometimes stood for God's power over all creation and sometimes for his defeat of his enemies (see Isaiah 27.1). In Job 41.1, Leviathan is either a sea monster or a crocodile with almost supernatural powers.