Job 3:9

Let the stars be darkened with the mist thereof: let it expect light and not see it, nor the rising of the dawning of the day:

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 who curse the day. who are ready to raise up a leviathan:

10Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, nor took away evils from my eyes.

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Cross References

Job 30:26I expected good things, and evils are come upon me: I waited for light, and darkness broke out.

Job 41:18For he shall esteem iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.

Jeremiah 13:16Give ye glory to the Lord your God, before it be dark, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains: you shall look for light, and he will turn it into the shadow of death, and into 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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