Job 3:9
Let the stars of its twilight be darkened; let it hope for light, and there be none; and let it not behold the eyelids of the morning-dawn;
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
8Let those denounce it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning cry.
10Because God closed not against me the doors of the womb, and thus concealed trouble from my eyes.
Cross References
Job 30:26That I hoped for good, but there came evil; and I waited for light, and there came darkness!
Job 41:18(41:10) From his sneezing there beameth forth a light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning-dawn.
Jeremiah 13:16Give unto the Lord your God glory, before he cause darkness, and before your feet strike upon the mountains of twilight, and [where], while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and change it into 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 →