Job 3:9
Let the stars of its twilight be dark, || Let it wait for light, and there is none, || And let it not look on the eyelids of the dawn.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
8Let the cursers of day mark it, || Who are ready to wake up Leviathan.
10Because it has not shut the doors || Of the womb that was mine! And hide misery from my eyes.
Cross References
Job 30:26When I expected good, then comes evil, || And I wait for light, and darkness comes.
Job 41:18His sneezings cause light to shine, || And his eyes [are] as the eyelids of the dawn.
Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to your God YHWH, || Before He causes darkness, || And before your feet stumble on dark mountains, || And you have waited for light, || And He has made it for death-shade, || And has appointed [it] for 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 →