Job 3:9

Let the stars be concealed with its darkness. Let it expect light, and not see it, nor the rising of the dawn in the East.

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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

8May they curse it, who curse the day, who are prepared to awaken a leviathan.

10For it did not close the doors of the womb that bore me, nor take away evils from my eyes.

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Cross References

Job 30:26I expected good things, but evil things have come to me. I stood ready for light, yet darkness burst forth.

Job 41:18For he will consider iron as if it were chaff, and brass as if it were rotten wood.

Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to the Lord your God, before darkness falls, and before your feet stumble on the darkened mountains. You will expect light, but he will turn it into the shadow of death and into utter 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 →

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