KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Job 3:9–10
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Job 3:9
9Let 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:
9Let the starres of the twilight thereof be darke, let it looke for light, but haue none, neither let it see† the dawning of the day:
- Heb. the eye lids of the morning.
Job 3:10
10Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
10Because it shut not vp the doores of my mothers wombe, nor hid sorrowe from mine eyes.
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 3:9
To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Lights in the heavens; also figures of rulers, angels, or persons, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The faint light before sunrise or after sunset.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Destitute of light; obscure. Obscure; concealed; secret; not understood. Darkness; obscurity; the absence of light. Obscurity; a state of ignorance.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To direct the eyes or attention; to behold, observe, expect, or take heed.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Visible brightness; something that gives illumination; not heavy; to kindle, illuminate, or come down upon, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To perceive with the eyes; to behold, observe, understand, consider, experience, or take heed, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
The first appearance of light in the morning; the first opening or appearance of the intellectual powers; beginning.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
The period of light between morning and evening; a complete daily cycle; or a specified time, age, or season, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Job 3:10
For the reason that; since.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To close, fasten, or exclude; to become closed.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
A female parent; figuratively, a source, chief city, or maternal relation.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Concealed, covered, kept secret, or placed out of sight.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Grief, mental pain, distress, or mourning; also to grieve.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
The organs of sight; by extension, sight, attention, judgment, or presence, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE)
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From verse 9
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Open the full verse study18By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
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Open the full verse study16Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
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Open the full verse study15We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!
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Open the full verse study26When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
From verse 10
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Open the full verse study3¶ If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
4For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.
5Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.
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Open the full verse study18For the Lord had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham’s wife.
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Open the full verse study17Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.
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Open the full verse study5But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the Lord had shut up her womb.
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Open the full verse study10Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.
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Open the full verse study31¶ And when the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.
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Open the full verse study1MY soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
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Open the full verse study2Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
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Open the full verse study2Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
3For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
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Open the full verse study18Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
19I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
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