Job 3:7

But let that night be pain, 1 And let not mirth come upon it, nor joy. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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

In Context

6Let that day and night be cursed, 1 Let darkness carry them away; 1 Let it not come into the days of the year, 1 Neither let it be numbered with the days of the months. 1

8But let him that curses that day curse it, 1 Even he that is ready to attack the great whale. 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 13:20It shall never be inhabited, neither shall any enter into it for many generations: neither shall the Arabians pass through it; nor shall shepherds at all rest in it.

Jeremiah 7:34And I will destroy out of the cities of Judah, and the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of them that make merry, and the voice of them that rejoice, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride; for the whole land shall become a 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 →

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