Job 3:4

Let that day be darkness ; i.e. let a cloud rest upon it—let it be regarded as a day of ill omen, "carbone notandus." Job recognizes that his wish, that the day should perish utterly, is vain, and limits himself now to the possible. Let not God regard it from above ; i.e. let not God, from the heaven where he dwells, extend to it his protection and superintending care. Neither let the light shine upon it . Pleonastic, but having the sort of force which belongs to reiteration.