Job 3:4
Verse 4 of 26. The 3rd of 42 chapters in Job, in Poetry and Wisdom.
1After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
2And Job spake, and said,
3Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
4Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
5Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
6As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
7Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
8Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
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Job 3:4 in the World English Bible
Let that day be darkness. Don’t let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.Read Job 3:4 in the WEB
Matthew Henry on Job 3:4
That Heaven might frown upon it: Let not God regard it from above, v. 4. "Every thing is indeed as it is with God; that day is honourable on which he puts honour, and which he distinguishes and crowns with his favour and blessing, as he did the seventh day of the week; but let my birthday never be so honoured; let it be nigro carbone notandus—marked as with a black coal for an evil day by him that determines…
Read Matthew Henry on Job 3:1–10: Job Curses His Day. (b. c. 1520.)
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King James Version. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.