Job 3:9
Good News Translation
Keep the morning star from shining; give that night no hope of dawn.

New Revised Standard Version
Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light, but have none; may it not see the eyelids of the morning—

Contemporary English Version
Darken its morning stars and remove all hope of light,

New American Bible
May the stars of its twilight be darkened; may it look for daylight, but have none, nor gaze on the eyes of the dawn,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let the stars be darkened with the mist thereof: let it expect light, and not see it, nor the rising of the dawning of the day:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Let the stars be darkened with the mist thereof: let it expect light, and not see it, nor the rising of the dawning of the day:

look for light.

Job 30:26 I expected good things, and evils are come upon me: I waited for light, and darkness broke out.

Jeremiah 8:15 We looked for peace and no good came: for a time of healing, and behold fear.

Jeremiah 13:16 Give ye glory to the Lord your God, before it be dark, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains: you shall look for light, and he will turn it into the shadow of death, and into darkness.

the dawning of the day.

Job 41:18 His sneezing is like the shining of fire, and his eyes like the eyelids of the morning.

Context
Job Laments His Birth
8Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to raise up a leviathan: 9Let the stars be darkened with the mist thereof: let it expect light, and not see it, nor the rising of the dawning of the day:10Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, nor took away evils from my eyes.…
Cross References
Job 3:8
Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to raise up a leviathan:

Job 3:10
Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, nor took away evils from my eyes.

Job 41:18
His sneezing is like the shining of fire, and his eyes like the eyelids of the morning.

Job 3:8
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