Job 3:8
Let the kokhavim of the dawn thereof be dark; 1 let it look for ohr, but have none; 1 neither let it see the dawning of the shachar, 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
In Context
7Let them curse it that curse the yom, 1 who are ready to rouse Leviathan. 1
9Because it shut not up the dalatot of my motherʼs womb, 1 nor hid amal (tzoros) from mine eyes. 1
Cross References
2 Chronicles 35:25And Yirmeyahu lamented for Yoshiyahu; and all the sharim (singing men) and the sharot (singing women) commemorate Yoshiyahu in their laments to this day, and made them as chok + 35:25 set custom in Yisroel; and, hinei, they are written in HaKinot (the Laments).
Job 41:10By his sneezings ohr flares out, 1 and his eyes are like the eyelids of the shachar. 1
Jeremiah 9:17And let them make haste, 1 and take up a nehi (lamentation) for us, 1 that our eyes may run down with dimah (tears), 1 and our eyelids gush out with mayim. 1
Matthew 11:17We played the chalil (flute) for you, but you did not dance; we sang a kina (lament, funeral dirge) for you, and you did not mourn.
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 →