Job 3:4
Let that day be darkness. Let not God from above seek for it, nor let the light shine upon it.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
In Context
3Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night which said, There is a man-child conceived.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 11:12a land which LORD thy God cares for. The eyes of LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year.
Amos 5:18Woe to you who desire the day of LORD! Why would ye have the day of LORD? It is darkness, and not light.
Acts 27:20And when neither sun nor stars appeared for more days, and no small storm laying on, all remaining hope for us to be saved was taken away.
Matthew Henry on Job 3:2-11
Job Curses His Day. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. 2 And Job spake, and said, 3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived. 4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. 5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. 6 As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto… Read the whole commentary →