Job 3:9
Let the stars of its twilight be dark, Let it wait for light, and there is none, And let it not look on the eyelids of the dawn.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
8Let the cursers of day mark it, Who are ready to wake up Leviathan.
10Because it hath not shut the doors Of the womb that was mine! And hide misery from mine eyes.
Cross References
Job 30:26When good I expected, then cometh evil, And I wait for light, and darkness cometh.
Job 41:18His sneezings cause light to shine, And his eyes [are] as the eyelids of the dawn.
Jeremiah 13:16Give ye to Jehovah your God honour, Before He doth cause darkness, And before your feet stumble on dark mountains, And ye have waited for light, And He hath made it for death-shade, And hath appointed [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 →