Let the stars of that twilight be dim through darkness of it: let it look for light, but have none: neither let it [a]see [b]the dawning of the day,

10 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

11 [c]Why died I not in the birth? or why died I not, when I came out of the womb?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 3:9 Let it be always night, and never see day.
  2. Job 3:9 Hebrew, The eyelids of the morning.
  3. Job 3:11 This, and that which followeth, declareth, that when man giveth place to his passions, he is not able to stay nor keep measure, but runneth headlong into all evil, except God call him back.

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