Job 3:9

Because it shut not up the dalatot of my motherʼs womb, 1 nor hid amal (tzoros) from mine eyes. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

8Let 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

10Why did I not come to mot at birth? 1 Why did I not perish when I came out of the beten (belly, womb)? 1

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Cross References

Job 30:26When I looked for tov, 1 then rah came unto me; 1 and when I waited for ohr, 1 there came ofel (darkness). 1

Job 41:18The cherev of him that reacheth at him cannot hold 1 — the spear, the dart, nor the harpoon. 1

Jeremiah 13:16Give kavod to Hashem Eloheichem, 1 before He cause darkness, 1 and before your raglayim stumble 1 upon the dark mountains, 1 and, while ye look for ohr, 1 He turn it into the tzalmavet (shadow of death), 1 and make it gross darkness. 1

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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