Job 3:9

Let the stars of that night be darkened; 1 Let it remain dark, and not come into light; 1 And let it not see the morning star arise: 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:

In Context

8But let him that curses that day curse it, 1 Even he that is ready to attack the great whale. 1

10Because it shut not up the gates of my mother’s womb, 1 For so it would have removed sorrow from my eyes. 1

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Cross References

Job 30:26But I, when I waited for good things, 1 Behold, days of evils came the more upon me. 1

Job 41:18If spears should come against him, men will effect nothing, 1 Either with the spear or the breastplate. 1

Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and ye shall wait for light, and behold the shadow of death, and they shall be brought into 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 →

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