Job 3:9
Darkened be the stars of its twilight,—Let it wait for light, and there be none, neither let it see the eyelashes of the dawn:
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
8Let day-cursers denounce it, Those skilled in rousing the dragon of the sky:
10Because it closed not the doors of the womb wherein I was, and so hid trouble from mine eyes.
Cross References
Job 30:26Surely, for good, I looked, but there came in evil, And I waited for light, but there came in darkness;
Job 41:18His sneezings, flash forth light, and, his eyes, are like the eyelashes of the dawn;
Jeremiah 13:16Give ye to Yahweh your God—glory, Before he cause darkness, and Before your feet stumble upon the twilight mountains; Lest, when ye wait for light, He turn it into the shadow of death, And change it for thick 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 →