Verse 9
Job 3:9
Noah Webster Bible
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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:
Original Language Text
hebrew
יֶחְשְׁכוּ֮ כּוֹכְבֵ֪י נִ֫שְׁפּ֥/וֹ יְקַו לְ/א֥וֹר וָ/אַ֑יִן וְ/אַל יִ֝רְאֶ֗ה בְּ/עַפְעַפֵּי שָֽׁחַר
English Translation
The stars of the night will grow dark; he will wait for light, but there is none, and he will not see in the eyelids of dawn.
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Chapter 3 Context
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After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day.
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And Job spoke, and said,
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Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child con...
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Let that day be darkness; let not God (Elohim) regard it from above, neither let the light shine upo...
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Let darkness and the shades of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the d...
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As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined to the days of the year, let it...
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Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
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Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
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Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the...
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Because it prevented not my birth, nor hid sorrow from my eyes.
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Why died I not from the womb? why did I not expire at the time of my birth?
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Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts that I should be nursed?
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For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
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With kings and counselors of the earth, who built desolate places for themselves;
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Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
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Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
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There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary are at rest.
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There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
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The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
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Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul;
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Who long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
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Who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
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Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God (Elohim) hath hedged in?
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For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
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For the thing which I greatly feared hath come upon me, and that which I dreaded hath come to me.
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I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
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