Job 3:9
Let the stars of its twilight be darkened; Let it long for light, and have none; Neither let it see the eyelashes of the morning!
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
8Let them that curse the day curse it, Who are skilful to stir up the leviathan!
10Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, And hid not trouble from mine eyes.
Cross References
Job 30:26But when I looked for good, then evil came; When I looked for light, then came darkness.
Job 41:18His sneezing sendeth forth light, And his eyes are like the eyelashes of the morning.
Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to Jehovah, your God, Before he bring darkness, And your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, And, while ye look for light, He turn it into deathlike shade, And make it 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 →