Holy Scripture
Job 3:9
A church father on this verse
“HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION. Let the stars be darkened with the shadow thereof. In Holy Scripture by the title of stars we have set forth sometimes the righteousness of the Saints which shineth in the darkness of this life, and sometimes the false pretence of hypocrites, who display all the good that they do, that they…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
9Let the stars of that night be darkened; Let it remain dark, and not come into light; And let it not see the morning star arise:
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7But let that night be pain, And let not mirth come upon it, nor joy.
8But let him that curses that day curse it, Even he that is ready to attack the great whale.
— Job 3:9 —
10Because it shut not up the gates of my mother’s womb, For so it would have removed sorrow from my eyes.
11For why died I not in the belly? And why did I not come forth from the womb and die immediately?