Job 3:9
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May its morning stars grow dark; may it wait in vain for daylight; may it not see the breaking of dawn.
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"You have heard of the patience of Job," says the apostle, Jam 5:11. So we have, and of his impatience too. We wondered that a man should be so patient as he was (ch. 1 and Job 2:1-13), but we wonder also that a good man should be so impatient as he is in this chapter, where we find him cursing his day, and, in passion, I. Complaining that he was born (Job 3:1-10). II. Complaining that he did not die as soon as he was born (Job 3:11-19). III. Complaining that his life was now continued when he was in misery (Job 3:20-26). In this it must be owned that Job sinned with his lips, and it is written, not for our imitation, but our admonition, that he who things he stands may take heed lest he fall.
Open source ↗3:9 Venus and Mercury, the morning stars, herald the dawn (38:7).
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His snorting flashes with light, and his eyes are like the rays of dawn.
Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You wait for light, but He turns it into deep gloom and thick darkness.
We hoped for peace, but no good has come, for a time of healing, but there was only terror.
But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness fell.