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Job 3:4 — King James Version← Study notes

Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.


Job 3:4Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Job 3:412 words
HebrewMeaning
הַ/יּ֥וֹםhaywōm
the dayparticleH3117
always · chronicals · continually · daily ···
הַ/ה֗וּאhahwʾ
thatparticleH1931
as for her · him · it · the same ···
יְֽהִ֫יyəhiy
let it beverbH1961
altogether · be · accomplished · committed ···
חֹ֥שֶׁךְḥōšekə
darknessnounH2822
night · obscurity
אַֽלʾal
may notparticleH408
neither · never · no · nor ···
יִדְרְשֵׁ֣/הוּyidərəšēhw
he care for itverbH1875
at all · care for · diligently · inquire ···
אֱל֣וֹהַּʾĕlwōha
GodnounH433
god. See
מִ/מָּ֑עַלmimāʿal
abovepronH4605
exceeding · forward · on high · over ···
וְ/אַלwəʾal
and may notconjH408
neither · never · no · nor ···
תּוֹפַ֖עtwōpaʿ
it shine forthverbH3313
shew self · shine
עָלָ֣י/וʿālāyw
on itpronH5921
according to · after · against · among ···
נְהָרָֽהnəhārāh
daylightnounH5105
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

Church Fathers on Job 3:4

Let that day be turned into darkness. This day shines as it were in the hearts of men, when the persuasions of his wickedness are thought to be for our good, and what they are within is never seen; but when his wickedness is seen as it is, the day of false promises is as it were dimmed by a kind of darkness spread before the eyes of our judgment, in this respect, that such as he is in intrinsic worth, such he is perceived to be in his beguilement, and so ‘the day becomes…

Gregory the Great · 6th century · Morals on Job, Book 4 §6
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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