Job 3:9
Let the starres of that twilight be dimme through darkenesse of it: let it looke for light, but haue none: neither let it see the dawning of the day,
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
8Let them that curse the day, (being readie to renue their mourning) curse it.
10Because it shut not vp the dores of my mothers wombe: nor hid sorowe from mine eyes.
Cross References
Job 30:26Yet when I looked for good, euill came vnto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkenesse.
Job 41:18He esteemeth yron as strawe, and brasse as rotten wood.
Jeremiah 13:16Giue glory to the Lord your God before he bring darknes, and or euer your feete stumble in the darke mountaines, and whiles you look for light, he turne it into the shadowe of death and make it as darkenesse.
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 →