Job 3:9
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:
King James Version
In Context
8Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
10Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
Cross References
Job 30:26When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
Job 41:18By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross 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 →