Job 3:9 Parallel Translations

Let its stars turn dark before dawn. Let it hope for light and receive none. Let it not see the first light of dawn(GOD'S WORD®)

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:

ASV:

Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark: Let it look for light, but have none; Neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning:

BBE:

Let its morning stars be dark; let it be looking for light, but may it not have any; let it not see the eyes of the dawn.

DBY:

Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it wait for light, and have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the dawn:

ERV:

Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark: let it look for light, but have none; neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning:

JPS:

Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning;

WBS:

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:

WEB:

Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

YLT:

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.

Job 3:9 Cross References

XREF:

Job 3:8 "Let those curse it who curse the day, Who are prepared to rouse Leviathan.

Job 3:10 Because it did not shut the opening of my mother's womb, Or hide trouble from my eyes. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

3:9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but [have] none; neither let it {g} see the dawning of the day:
(g) Let it be always night, and never see day.

WES:

3:9 The stars - Let the stars, which are the glory and beauty of the night, be covered with thick darkness, and that both in the evening twilight, when the stars begin to shine; and also in the farther progress of the night, even 'till the morning dawns. Look - Let its darkness be aggravated with the disappointment of its expectations of light. He ascribes sense or reasoning to the night, by a poetical fiction, usual in all writers. Dawning - Heb. the eye - lids of the day, the morning - star which ushers in the day, and the beginning, and progress of the morning light, let this whole natural day, consisting of night and day, be blotted out of the catalogue of days.

MHC:

3:1-10 For seven days Job's friends sat by him in silence, without offering consolidation: at the same time Satan assaulted his mind to shake his confidence, and to fill him with hard thoughts of God. The permission seems to have extended to this, as well as to torturing the body. Job was an especial type of Christ, whose inward sufferings, both in the garden and on the cross, were the most dreadful; and arose in a great degree from the assaults of Satan in that hour of darkness. These inward trials show the reason of the change that took place in Job's conduct, from entire submission to the will of God, to the impatience which appears here, and in other parts of the book. The believer, who knows that a few drops of this bitter cup are more dreadful than the sharpest outward afflictions, while he is favoured with a sweet sense of the love and presence of God, will not be surprised to find that Job proved a man of like passions with others; but will rejoice that Satan was disappointed, and could not prove him a hypocrite; for though he cursed the day of his birth, he did not curse his God. Job doubtless was afterwards ashamed of these wishes, and we may suppose what must be his judgment of them now he is in everlasting happiness.

CONC:

Behold Breaking Dark Darkened Dawn Dawning Daylight Eyelids Hope Morning None Rays Stars Thereof Twilight Vain Wait

Breaking Dark Darkened Dawn Dawning Daylight Eyelids Eyes First Hope Light Morning Rays Stars Thereof Twilight Vain Wait

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