Job 3:9

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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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Referenced Verses

  • Job 41:18 : 18 His sneezings cause light to shine, And his eyes `are' as the eyelids of the dawn.
  • Jer 8:15 : 15 Looking for peace -- and there is no good, For a time of healing, and lo, terror.
  • Jer 13:16 : 16 Give ye to Jehovah your God honour, Before He doth cause darkness, And before your feet stumble on dark mountains, And ye have waited for light, And He hath made it for death-shade, And hath appointed `it' for thick darkness.
  • Job 30:26 : 26 When good I expected, then cometh evil, And I wait for light, and darkness cometh.

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    3Let the day perish in which I am born, And the night that hath said: `A man-child hath been conceived.'

    4That day -- let it be darkness, Let not God require it from above, Nor let light shine upon it.

    5Let darkness and death-shade redeem it, Let a cloud tabernacle upon it, Let them terrify it as the most bitter of days.

    6That night -- let thick darkness take it, Let it not be united to days of the year, Into the number of months let it not come.

    7Lo! that night -- let it be gloomy, Let no singing come into it.

    8Let the cursers of day mark it, Who are ready to wake up Leviathan.

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    10For the stars of the heavens, and their constellations, Cause not their light to shine, Darkened hath been the sun in its going out, And the moon causeth not its light to come forth.

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    10Because it hath not shut the doors Of the womb that was mine! And hide misery from mine eyes.

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    5Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there doth not shine a spark of his fire.

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    2While that the sun is not darkened, and the light, And the moon, and the stars, And the thick clouds returned after the rain.

    3In the day that keepers of the house tremble, And men of strength have bowed themselves, And grinders have ceased, because they have become few. And those looking out at the windows have become dim,

  • Joel 3:15
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    15Sun and moon have been black, And stars have gathered up their shining.

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    20Is not the day of Jehovah darkness and not light, Even thick darkness that hath no brightness?

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    21Before I go, and return not, Unto a land of darkness and death-shade,

    22A land of obscurity as thick darkness, Death-shade -- and no order, And the shining `is' as thick darkness.'

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    5Lo -- unto the moon, and it shineth not, And stars have not been pure in His eyes.

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    12Night for day they appoint, Light `is' near because of darkness.

    13If I wait -- Sheol `is' my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch.

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    17For I have not been cut off before darkness, And before me He covered thick darkness.

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    22And unto the land it looketh attentively, And lo, adversity and darkness! -- Dimness, distress, and thick darkness is driven away, But not the dimness for which she is in distress!

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    16(Or as a hidden abortion I am not, As infants -- they have not seen light.)

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    6Therefore a night ye have without vision, And darkness ye have without divination, And gone in hath the sun on the prophets, And black over them hath been the day.

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    7Who is speaking to the sun, and it riseth not, And the stars He sealeth up.

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    19Where `is' this -- the way light dwelleth? And darkness, where `is' this -- its place?

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    16He hath dug in the darkness -- houses; By day they shut themselves up, They have not known light.

    17When together, morning `is' to them death shade, When he discerneth the terrors of death shade.

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    14By day they meet darkness, And as night -- they grope at noon.

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    11Or darkness -- thou dost not see, And abundance of waters doth cover thee.

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    8My way He hedged up, and I pass not over, And on my paths darkness He placeth.

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    2Me He hath led, and causeth to go `in' darkness, and without light.

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    23To a man whose way hath been hidden, And whom God doth shut up?

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    20Desire not the night, For the going up of peoples in their stead.

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    11And I say, `Surely darkness bruiseth me, Then night `is' light to me.

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    20Why giveth He to the miserable light, and life to the bitter soul?

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    9Therefore hath judgment been far from us, And righteousness reacheth us not, We wait for light, and lo, darkness, For brightness -- in thick darkness we go,

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    18And why from the womb Hast Thou brought me forth? I expire, and the eye doth not see me.

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    26When good I expected, then cometh evil, And I wait for light, and darkness cometh.

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    6In dark places He hath caused me to dwell, As the dead of old.

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    9And it hath come to pass in that day, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, I have caused the sun to go in at noon, And caused darkness on the land in a day of light,

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    17And above the noon doth age rise, Thou fliest -- as the morning thou art.

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    4For in vanity he came in, and in darkness he goeth, and in darkness his name is covered,

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    23I looked `to' the land, and lo, waste and void, And unto the heavens, and their light is not.