Job 3:9

Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it wait for light, and have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the dawn:

Darby Translation

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 them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to rouse Leviathan;

10Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, and hid not trouble from mine eyes.

Read all of Job 3

Cross References

Job 30:26For I expected good, and there came evil; and I waited for light, but there came darkness.

Job 41:18His sneezings flash light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to Jehovah your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the mountains of twilight; and ye shall look for light, but he will turn it into the shadow of death, and make [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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Job 3:9