Job 3:9 · KJV
“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: {the dawning...: Heb. the eyelids of the morning}”
— Job 3:9
Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning. {their...: or, leviathan}
Because it shut not up the doors of my {mother's} womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
Job 3 — Context
Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
8Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning. {their...: or, leviathan}
9Let 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: {the dawning...: Heb. the eyelids of the morning}
10Because it shut not up the doors of my {mother's} womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
11Why died I not from the womb? {why} did I {not} give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
Cross References
Job 41:18
By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes {are} like the eyelids of the morning.
Job 30:26
When I looked for good, then evil came {unto me}: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
Jeremiah 8:15
We looked for peace, but no good {came; and} for a time of health, and behold trouble!
Jeremiah 13:16
Give 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.