Job 3:4

That day—let it be darkness, || Do not let God require it from above, || Nor let light shine on it.

Literal Standard Version

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

3“Let the day perish in which I am born, || And the night that has said: A man-child has been conceived.

5Let darkness and death-shade redeem it, || Let a cloud dwell on it, || Let them terrify it as the most bitter of days.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 11:12a land which your God YHWH is searching; the eyes of your God YHWH [are] continually on it, from the beginning of the year even to the latter end of the year.

Amos 5:18Behold, you who are desiring the Day of YHWH, || Why [is] this to you—the Day of YHWH? It is darkness, and not light,

Acts 27:20and neither sun nor stars appearing for more days, and not a little storm lying on us, from then on all hope was taken away of our being saved.

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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