Job 3:9
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Let the stars be darkened with the mist thereof: let it expect light, and not see it, nor the rising of the dawning of the day:

look for light.

Job 30:26 I expected good things, and evils are come upon me: I waited for light, and darkness broke out.

Jeremiah 8:15 We looked for peace and no good came: for a time of healing, and behold fear.

Jeremiah 13:16 Give ye glory to the Lord your God, before it be dark, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains: you shall look for light, and he will turn it into the shadow of death, and into darkness.

the dawning of the day.

Job 41:18 His sneezing is like the shining of fire, and his eyes like the eyelids of the morning.

Context
Job Laments His Birth
8Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to raise up a leviathan: 9Let the stars be darkened with the mist thereof: let it expect light, and not see it, nor the rising of the dawning of the day:10Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, nor took away evils from my eyes.…
Cross References
Job 3:8
Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to raise up a leviathan:

Job 3:10
Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, nor took away evils from my eyes.

Job 41:18
His sneezing is like the shining of fire, and his eyes like the eyelids of the morning.

Lexicon
May its morning
נִ֫שְׁפּ֥וֹ (niš·pōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5399: A breeze, dusk

stars
כּוֹכְבֵ֪י (kō·wḵ·ḇê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 3556: A star, a prince

grow dark;
יֶחְשְׁכוּ֮ (yeḥ·šə·ḵū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 2821: To be dark, to darken

may it wait
יְקַו־ (yə·qaw-)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect Jussive - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6960: To bind together, collect, to expect

in vain
וָאַ֑יִן (wā·’a·yin)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 369: A non-entity, a negative particle

for daylight;
לְא֥וֹר (lə·’ō·wr)
Preposition-l | Noun - common singular
Strong's Hebrew 216: Illumination, luminary

may it not
וְאַל־ (wə·’al-)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 408: Not

see
יִ֝רְאֶ֗ה (yir·’eh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7200: To see

the breaking of dawn.
שָֽׁחַר׃ (šā·ḥar)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7837: Dawn


Additional Translations
May its morning stars grow dark; may it wait in vain for daylight; may it not see the breaking of dawn.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:

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:

Let the stars of that night be darkened; let it remain dark, and not come into light; and let it not see the morning star arise:

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:

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:

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:

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,

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.
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