Job 3:9

Let its morning stars be dark; let it be looking for light, but may it not have any; let it not see the eyes of the dawn.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:

In Context

8Let it be cursed by those who put a curse on the day; who are ready to make Leviathan awake.

10Because it did not keep the doors of my mother's body shut, so that trouble might be veiled from my eyes.

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Cross References

Job 30:26For I was looking for good, and evil came; I was waiting for light, and it became dark.

Job 41:18\41:27\Iron is to him as dry grass, and brass as soft wood.

Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.

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 →

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