Job 3:9

Job chapter 3 · verse 9 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

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:

King James Version · 1611

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:

American Standard Version · 1901

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:

v.8Let them curse it that curse the day, Who are ready to rouse up leviathan.

v.9This passage

v.10Because it shut not up the doors of mymother’swomb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes.

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Jeremiah 8:15
We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!
Jeremiah 13:16
Give glory to Jehovah 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 41:18
His sneezings flash forth light, And his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
Job 30:26
When I looked for good, then evil came; And when I waited for light, there came darkness.