Job 3:7

Let that night be childless, with no sounds of happiness heard.

Free Bible Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

6Blot out that night as if it never existed. Don't count it on the calendar. Don't let it have a day in any month.

8Those who place curses on certain days should curse it, those who have the power to raise Leviathan.

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Cross References

Isaiah 13:20No one will ever live in Babylon again. It will be deserted—no desert nomad will set up a tent there, no shepherd will bring a flock to rest there.

Jeremiah 7:34I will put a stop to the cheerful sounds of celebration and the happy voices of the bride and bridegroom from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem, for the country will be turned into a wasteland.

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 →

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