Job 3:9

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Let its morning stars be darkened; let it wait for daylight but find none, nor let it see the first rays of dawn,

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 41:18 : 18 Its snorting throws out flashes of light; its eyes are like the red glow of dawn.
  • Jer 8:15 : 15 We hoped for good fortune, but nothing good has come of it. We hoped for a time of relief, but instead we experience terror.
  • Jer 13:16 : 16 Show the LORD your God the respect that is due him. Do it before he brings the darkness of disaster. Do it before you stumble into distress like a traveler on the mountains at twilight. Do it before he turns the light of deliverance you hope for into the darkness and gloom of exile.
  • Job 30:26 : 26 But when I hoped for good, trouble came; when I expected light, then darkness came.

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    3“Let the day on which I was born perish, and the night that said,‘A man has been conceived!’

    4That day– let it be darkness; let not God on high regard it, nor let light shine on it!

    5Let darkness and the deepest shadow claim it; let a cloud settle on it; let whatever blackens the day terrify it!

    6That night– let darkness seize it; let it not be included among the days of the year; let it not enter among the number of the months!

    7Indeed, let that night be barren; let no shout of joy penetrate it!

    8Let those who curse the day curse it– those who are prepared to rouse Leviathan.

  • Isa 13:10
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    10Indeed the stars in the sky and their constellations no longer give out their light; the sun is darkened as soon as it rises, and the moon does not shine.

  • Job 3:10
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    10because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb on me, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes!

  • Job 18:5-6
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    5“Yes, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; his flame of fire does not shine.

    6The light in his tent grows dark; his lamp above him is extinguished.

  • Eccl 12:2-3
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    2before the sun and the light of the moon and the stars grow dark, and the clouds disappear after the rain;

    3when those who keep watch over the house begin to tremble, and the virile men begin to stoop over, and the grinders begin to cease because they grow few, and those who look through the windows grow dim,

  • Joel 3:15
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    15The sun and moon are darkened; the stars withhold their brightness.

  • Amos 5:20
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    20Don’t you realize the LORD’s day of judgment will bring darkness, not light– gloomy blackness, not bright light?

  • Job 10:21-22
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    21before I depart, never to return, to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow,

    22to the land of utter darkness, like the deepest darkness, and the deepest shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”

  • Job 25:5
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    5If even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not pure as far as he is concerned,

  • Job 17:12-13
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    12These men change night into day; they say,‘The light is near in the face of darkness.’

    13If I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

  • Job 23:17
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    17Yet I have not been silent because of the darkness, because of the thick darkness that covered my face.

  • Isa 8:22
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    22When one looks out over the land, he sees distress and darkness, gloom and anxiety, darkness and people forced from the land.

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    16Or why was I not buried like a stillborn infant, like infants who have never seen the light?

  • Mic 3:6
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    6Therefore night will fall, and you will receive no visions; it will grow dark, and you will no longer be able to read the omens. The sun will set on these prophets, and the daylight will turn to darkness over their heads.

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    7he who commands the sun and it does not shine and seals up the stars;

  • Job 38:19
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    19“In what direction does light reside, and darkness, where is its place,

  • Job 24:16-17
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    16In the dark the robber breaks into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.

    17For all of them, the morning is to them like deep darkness; they are friends with the terrors of darkness.

  • Job 5:14
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    14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope about in the noontime as if it were night.

  • Job 22:11
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    11why it is so dark you cannot see, and why a flood of water covers you.

  • Job 19:8
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    8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness over my paths.

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    18He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.

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    2He drove me into captivity and made me walk in darkness and not light.

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    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 long for the cover of night to drag people away from their homes.

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    3when he caused his lamp to shine upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;

  • Ps 139:11-12
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    11If I were to say,“Certainly the darkness will cover me, and the light will turn to night all around me,”

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    20Longing for Death“Why does God give light to one who is in misery, and life to those whose soul is bitter,

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    9Israel Confesses its Sin For this reason deliverance is far from us and salvation does not reach us. We wait for light, but see only darkness; we wait for a bright light, but live in deep darkness.

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    8I will darken all the lights in the sky over you, and I will darken your land, declares the Sovereign LORD.

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    18An Appeal for Relief“Why then did you bring me out from the womb? I should have died and no eye would have seen me!

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    30At that time they will growl over their prey, it will sound like sea waves crashing against rocks. One will look out over the land and see the darkness of disaster, clouds will turn the light into darkness.

  • Job 30:26
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    26But when I hoped for good, trouble came; when I expected light, then darkness came.

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    6He has made me reside in deepest darkness like those who died long ago.

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    9in the twilight, the evening, in the dark of the night.

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    9In that day,” says the Sovereign LORD,“I will make the sun set at noon, and make the earth dark in the middle of the day.

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    17And life will be brighter than the noonday; though there be darkness, it will be like the morning.

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    4Though the stillborn child came into the world for no reason and departed into darkness, though its name is shrouded in darkness,

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    16Show the LORD your God the respect that is due him. Do it before he brings the darkness of disaster. Do it before you stumble into distress like a traveler on the mountains at twilight. Do it before he turns the light of deliverance you hope for into the darkness and gloom of exile.

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    23“I looked at the land and saw that it was an empty wasteland. I looked up at the sky, and its light had vanished.