Job 3:9
Let the stars of the twilight of it be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, nor let it behold the eyelids of the morning.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
8Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
10Because it did not shut up the doors of my [mother's] womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes.
Cross References
Job 30:26When I looked for good, then evil came. And when I waited for light, there came darkness.
Job 41:18His sneezings flash forth light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains. And, while ye look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.
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 →