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Job 3:7

May that night be alone and unworthy of praise.

Catholic Public Domain Version

In The King James Version

Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.

In Context

6Let a whirlwind of darkness take hold of that night, let it not be counted in the days of the year, nor numbered in the months.

8May they curse it, who curse the day, who are prepared to awaken a leviathan.

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Cross References

Isaiah 13:20It will not be inhabited, even unto the end, and it will not be reestablished, even from generation to generation. The Arab will not pitch his tents there, nor will the shepherds take rest there.

Jeremiah 7:34And from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem, I will cause the cessation of the voice of gladness and the voice of rejoicing, the voice of the groom and the voice of the bride. For the land will be in utter desolation.”

Matthew Henry on Job 3:2-11

Job Curses His Day. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. 2 And Job spake, and said, 3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived. 4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. 5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. 6 As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto… Read the whole commentary →

This Verse In Other Editions

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