Job 3:6

Yon night — let darkness seize upon it; let it not be united to the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the [periods lighted by the] moon.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

In Context

5Oh that darkness and the shadow of death might defile it; may a cloud rest upon it; may the blackness of the day terrify it.

7Lo, may that night be solitary, let no song of joy occur thereon.

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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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