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Commentary for Job 3:8

יִקְּבֻ֥הוּ אֹרְרֵי־י֑וֹם הָ֝עֲתִידִ֗ים עֹרֵ֥ר לִוְיָתָֽן׃

Let them curse it that curse the day, Who are ready to rouse up leviathan.

Rashi on Job

curse it Heb. יקבהו, curse it, as in (Num. 22:17), “curse (קבה) for me.”
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Rashi on Job

those who curse the day Those who curse their days, since they intend to pronounce a curse because of their anguish.
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Rashi on Job

those destined to be childless in their union Heb. ערר לויתן, to be childless (ערירים) in their union; to join their mate in the union of man and wife, without children. And I saw in the Jerusalem Talmud (Moed Katan 1:5) that עֹרֵר means, to lament their mate when he dies, as in (Moed Katan 1:6): A person may not inspire lamentations (יערער) for his dead relative.
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