King James Bible
"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 curses the night of his conception, wishing its stars would be extinguished. In ancient thought, stars were signs of divine order and hope, so their darkness symbolizes complete cosmic abandonment. The personified night is condemned to eternal disappointment, forever seeking but never finding relief from darkness. This reflects Job's own experience of searching for hope in his suffering but finding only despair. Job wishes to deny the night even the natural progression to dawn, trapping it in perpetual darkness. The dawn imagery, typically associated with new mercy and deliverance in Hebrew poetry, is deliberately withheld as the ultimate curse.