Job 3:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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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:

Job 3:9 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 41:18
By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
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.
Job 30:26
When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Blessing Despair Despondency Discouragement Enquiring of God Importunity Prayer

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-10)

Long was Job’s heart hot within him; and, while he was musing, the fire burned, and the more for being stifled and suppressed. At length he spoke with his tongue, but not such a good word as David spoke after a long pause: Lord, make me to know my end, Ps. 39:3, 4. Seven days the prophet Ezekiel sat down astonished with the captives, and then (probably on the sabbath day) the word of the Lord came…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 9)

9. dawning of the day--literally, “eyelashes of morning.” The Arab poets call the sun the eye of day. His early rays, therefore, breaking forth before sunrise, are the opening eyelids or eyelashes of morning.