Job 3:7

Let them curse it that curse the yom, 1 who are ready to rouse Leviathan. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

6Hinei, let that lailah be barren; 1 let no joyful shout come therein. 1

8Let the kokhavim of the dawn thereof be dark; 1 let it look for ohr, but have none; 1 neither let it see the dawning of the shachar, 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 13:20Lo lanetzach (not ever) shall it be inhabited, 1 neither shall it be dwelt in ad dor vador; 1 neither shall the Arab pitch ohel there; 1 neither shall the ro'im rest their flock there. 1

Jeremiah 7:34Then will I cause to cease from the towns of Yehudah, and from the chutzot Yerushalayim, the sound of joy, and the sound of simchah, the sound of the Choson (Bridegroom) and the sound of the Kallah (Bride); for HaAretz shall be desolate.

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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