Job 3:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it look for light, but have none; nor let it see the breaking of dawn:

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 41:18 : 18 By his sneezings a light shines, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
  • Jer 8:15 : 15 We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold, trouble!
  • Jer 13:16 : 16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.
  • Job 30:26 : 26 When I looked for good, then evil came to me; and when I waited for light, darkness came.

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    3Let the day perish on which I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a male child conceived.

    4Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, nor let the light shine upon it.

    5Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let blackness of the day terrify it.

    6As for that night, let darkness seize it; let it not be included among the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

    7Behold, let that night be barren, let no joyful shout come in it.

    8Let those curse it who curse the day, who are ready to stir up their lamentation.

  • Isa 13:10
    78%

    10For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light: the sun will be darkened in its rising, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.

  • Job 3:10
    77%

    10Because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide sorrow from my eyes.

  • Job 18:5-6
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    5Indeed, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

    6The light shall be dark in his dwelling, and his lamp shall be put out with him.

  • Eccl 12:2-3
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    2While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars are not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain.

    3In the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those who look out of the windows are darkened,

  • Joel 3:15
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    15The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.

  • Amos 5:20
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    20Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, with no brightness in it?

  • Job 10:21-22
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    21Before I go to the place from which I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

    22A land of darkness, like darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

  • Job 25:5
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    5Behold, even the moon, and it does not shine; yes, the stars are not pure in His sight.

  • Job 17:12-13
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    12They change the night into day; the light is near because of darkness.

    13If I wait, the grave is my house; I have made my bed in the darkness.

  • Job 23:17
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    17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, nor has he covered the darkness from my face.

  • Isa 8:22
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    22And they shall look to the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and they shall be driven into darkness.

  • Job 3:16
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    16Or as a hidden untimely birth I would not have existed; like infants who never saw light.

  • Mic 3:6
    74%

    6Therefore night shall be unto you, that you shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that you shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.

  • Job 9:7
    74%

    7He commands the sun, and it does not rise; He seals up the stars.

  • Job 38:19
    73%

    19Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And as for darkness, where is its place,

  • Job 24:16-17
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    16In the dark they break into houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime; they do not know the light.

    17For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death; if one knows them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

  • Job 5:14
    73%

    14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at midday as if it were night.

  • Job 22:11
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    11Or darkness, that you cannot see; and an abundance of waters covers you.

  • Job 19:8
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    8He has fenced up my way so that I cannot pass, and He has set darkness in my paths.

  • Job 18:18
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    18He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

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    72%

    2He has led me and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

  • Job 3:23
    72%

    23Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?

  • Job 36:20
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    20Do not desire the night, when people are cut off in their place.

  • Job 29:3
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    3When His lamp shone upon my head, and by His light I walked through darkness;

  • Ps 139:11-12
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    72%

    11If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.

    12Yes, the darkness does not hide from You, but the night shines as the day; the darkness and the light are both alike to You.

  • Job 3:20
    72%

    20Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul;

  • Isa 59:9
    71%

    9Therefore justice is far from us, nor does righteousness overtake us: we wait for light, but see obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

  • Ezek 32:8
    71%

    8All the bright lights of the sky will I make dark over you, and set darkness upon your land, says the Lord GOD.

  • Job 10:18
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    18Why then have You brought me forth out of the womb? Oh, that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!

  • Isa 5:30
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    30And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one looks to the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened by the clouds of the heavens.

  • Job 30:26
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    26When I looked for good, then evil came to me; and when I waited for light, darkness came.

  • Lam 3:6
    71%

    6He has set me in dark places, like those long dead.

  • Prov 7:9
    71%

    9In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night;

  • Amos 8:9
    71%

    9And it shall come to pass in that day, declares the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in broad daylight:

  • Job 11:17
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    17And your age shall be brighter than the noonday; you shall shine forth, you shall be as the morning.

  • Eccl 6:4
    71%

    4For it comes in vanity and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness.

  • Jer 13:16
    71%

    16Give glory to the LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.

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    71%

    23I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was formless and empty; and the heavens, and they had no light.