Job 3:4
Let that day be darkness. Don’t let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.
World English Bible British
In The King James Version
Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
In Context
3“Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’
Cross References
Deuteronomy 11:12a land which the LORD your God cares for. The LORD your God’s eyes are always on it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year.
Amos 5:18“Woe to you who desire the day of the LORD! Why do you long for the day of the LORD? It is darkness, and not light.
Acts 27:20When neither sun nor stars shone on us for many days, and no small storm pressed on us, all hope that we would be saved was now taken away.
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 →