Job 3:9
Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,
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In Context
8Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
10because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
Cross References
Job 30:26When I looked for good, then evil came. When I waited for light, darkness came.
Job 41:18His sneezing flashes out light. His eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to the LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it deep 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 →