Job 3:9
May its morning stars grow dark; may it wait in vain for daylight; may it not see the breaking of dawn.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
8May it be cursed by those who curse the day — those prepared to rouse Leviathan.
10For that night did not shut the doors of the womb to hide the sorrow from my eyes.
Cross References
Job 30:26But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness fell.
Job 41:18His snorting flashes with light, and his eyes are like the rays of dawn.
Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You wait for light, but He turns it into deep gloom and thick 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 →