Job 3:4

May that day be [covered with] darkness; may not God from above inquire for it, and may no light beam upon it.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.

In Context

3Oh that the day whereon I was born might perish, and the night when it was said, There hath been a male child conceived.

5Oh that darkness and the shadow of death might defile it; may a cloud rest upon it; may the blackness of the day terrify it.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 11:12A land which the Lord thy God careth for; always are the eyes of the Lord thy God upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.

Amos 5:18Woe unto you that long for the day of the Lord! for what do you wish the day of the Lord? it is [one of] darkness, and not of light.

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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