Job 3:7

(Let) That night be sullen, and not worthy of praising.

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

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

In Context

6Dark whirlwind hold that night; be it not reckoned among the days of the year, neither be it numbered among the months. (Let a dark whirlwind hold that night; be it not reckoned among the days of the year, nor let it be counted among the months.)

8Curse they it, that curse the day, that be ready to raise Leviathan + 3:8 That is, the Devil, as Alcuin saith. (Curse they it, who curse the day, yea, they who be ready to raise up even Leviathan.)

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Cross References

Isaiah 13:20It shall not be inhabited till into the end (or It shall never be inhabited again), and it shall not be founded till to generation and generation; a man of Arabia shall not set tents there, and shepherds shall not rest there.

Jeremiah 7:34And I shall make to cease the voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, (or And I shall make to cease the sound of joy, and the sound of happiness), and the voice of [the] spouse, and the voice of [the] spousess from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem; for the land shall be in 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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