Job 3:9
Its early morning stars should stay dark. Looking for light, may none come, may it not see the glimmer of dawn
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In Context
8Those who place curses on certain days should curse it, those who have the power to raise Leviathan.
10for it did not shut my mother's womb to prevent me from seeing trouble.
Cross References
Job 30:26But when I looked for good, only evil came, and when I waited for the light, all that came was darkness.
Job 41:18When it sneezes light shines out. Its eyes are like the rising sun.
Jeremiah 13:16Honor the Lord your God before he brings the darkness, before you trip and fall in the twilight on the mountains. You long for light to come, but he sends only gloom and complete 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 →