Job 3:3-9

³ “Let the day perish in which I was born,
the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’ ⁴ Let that day be darkness.
Don’t let God from above seek for it,
neither let the light shine on it. ⁵ Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own.
Let a cloud dwell on it.
Let all that makes black the day terrify it. ⁶ As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it.
Let it not rejoice among the days of the year.
Let it not come into the number of the months. ⁷ Behold, let that night be barren.
Let no joyful voice come therein. ⁸ Let them curse it who curse the day,
who are ready to rouse up leviathan. ⁹ Let the stars of its twilight be dark.
Let it look for light, but have none,
neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

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Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 3:3-9

Commentary on Job 3:1-10

(Read Job 3:1-10)

For seven days Job's friends sat by him in silence, without offering consolidation: at the same time Satan assaulted his mind to shake his confidence, and to fill him with hard thoughts of God. The permission seems to have extended to this, as well as to torturing the body. Job was an especial type of Christ, whose inward sufferings, both in the garden and on the cross, were the most dreadful; and arose in a great degree from the assaults of Satan in that hour of darkness. These inward trials show the reason of the change that took place in Job's conduct, from entire submission to the will of God, to the impatience which appears here, and in other parts of the book. The believer, who knows that a few drops of this bitter cup are more dreadful than the sharpest outward afflictions, while he is favoured with a sweet sense of the love and presence of God, will not be surprised to find that Job proved a man of like passions with others; but will rejoice that Satan was disappointed, and could not prove him a hypocrite; for though he cursed the day of his birth, he did not curse his God. Job doubtless was afterwards ashamed of these wishes, and we may suppose what must be his judgment of them now he is in everlasting happiness.