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:
Ver. 9. Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark] If the stars of its twilight be dark, how great is that darkness! Job would not have this night to have light of stars, or hope of day's dawn, hope of better, or place of worse. And this part of the curse he reserveth to the last place, as worse than any of the former. Semblably, that judgment of pining away in their iniquity is the last that God denounceth, Leviticus 26:39, after those other dismal ones there to befall the disobedient. And that, Revelation 22:11, Let him that is filthy be filthy still, is the last, but not the least (of those that befall in this life), threatened in all the New Testament.
Let it look for light, but have none] Heb. But none. Loss of expectation is a great loss. Esau found it so, and the mother of Sisera, Judges 5:28, and those shall once, that come knocking and bouncing at heaven's gates, with "Lord, Lord, open unto us," and shall hear, "Depart ye." The hopes of the wicked fail them when at highest; whereas the saints find that comfort in extremity which they durst not expect: their light shall rise in obscurity, Isaiah 58:10, it shall shine more and more unto the perfect day, Proverbs 4:18 .
Let it not see the dawning of the day] Heb. The eyelids of the morning; that is, the first breakings of light, the morning rays or beams peeping abroad. These this night must never see. Heaven is a nightless day (ανεσπερος ημερα), hell a dayless night. Fire there is, but without light; it burneth, but shineth not to those reprobates who are in tenebras ex tenebris infeliciter exclusi, infelicius excludendi; thrust into outer darkness, a darkness beyond a darkness, as the dungeon is beyond the prison, Matthew 8:12 .