Job 3:9
Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
Webster Bible
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In Context
8Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
10Because it prevented not my birth, nor hid sorrow from my eyes.
Cross References
Job 30:26When I looked for good, then evil came: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
Job 41:18His sneezings flash light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to the LORD your God, before he shall cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and while ye look for light, he shall turn it into the shades 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 →