“Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:”
Job wishes that the stars of the dawn remain dark and that the day wait in vain for light, extending the curse into a cosmic disturbance that would interrupt the normal progression of day and night. The darkening of the stars and the withholding of light represent a comprehensive reversal of creation's foundational work. His curse imagines a universe in permanent darkness, unable to complete its diurnal cycles.
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