Job 3:9

May the stars of that day's dawn be dark. 1 May that day look for light, but find none; 1 neither may it see the eyelids of the dawn, 1

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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

8May they curse that day, 1 those who know how to wake up Leviathan. 1

10because it did not shut up the doors of my mother's womb, 1 and because it did not hide trouble from my eyes. 1

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Cross References

Job 30:26When I hoped for good, then evil came; 1 when I waited for light, darkness came instead. 1

Job 41:18Light flashes out from his snorting; 1 his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning dawn. 1

Jeremiah 13:16Give honor to Yahweh your God before he brings darkness, 1 and before he causes your feet to stumble on the mountains at twilight. 1 For you are hoping for light, but he will turn the place into a deep darkness, into a dark cloud. 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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