Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 3:9

9. [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: ]

Let the Stars, which are the Glory and Beauty of the Night, to render it amiable and delightful to men, be covered with thick darkness, Chap. 41. 18. and that both in the Evening Twilight, as is here expressed, when the Stars begin to arise and shine forth, and also in the further progress of the Night, even till the Morning begins to dawn, as the following words imply.

Let its darkness be aggravated with the disappointment of its Hopes and Expectations of Light. He ascribes sense or reasoning to the Night by a Poetical fiction usual in all Writers.

Heb. The Eye-lids of the day, i. e. the Morning-Star which ushers in the day, and the beginning and consequently the progress of the Morning Light, and the Day following. Let this whole natural day consisting of Night and day be blotted out of the Catalogue of Days, as he wished before.

Marginal references: Chap. 41. 18.; Heb. the Eyelids of the morning.