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Job 3:6
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If only darkness had taken that night away!May it not appear among the days of the yearor be listed in the calendar.
As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months.
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.
That night—let thick darkness seize it! Let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.
Let thick darkness capture that night. Don't count it among the days of the year or put it in any of the months.
That night—let darkness seize it; let it not be included among the days of the year; let it not enter among the number of the months!
"As for that night, let darkness seize it; Let it not rejoice among the days of the year; Let it not be counted in the number of the months.
"As for that night, may darkness seize it; May it not rejoice among the days of the year; May it not come into the number of the months.
As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months.
Let darkenesse possesse that night, let it not be ioyned vnto the dayes of the yeere, nor let it come into the count of the moneths.
As for that night, let thick darkness take it;Let it not rejoice among the days of the year;Let it not come into the number of the months.
Erase that night from the calendar and conceal it with darkness.
may that night be desolate, may no cry of joy be heard in it;
That night—let gloom seize upon it; let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.
I wish the darkness had carried away that night, that it was left off the calendar and not included in any of the months.
As for that night, let thick darkness cover it; let that day not be reckoned in the number of the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
Blot that night out of the year, and never let it be counted again;
Let darkness seize that night; let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not enter among the number of the months.
As for that night, let darkness seize it! Let it not be joined to the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months.
Let the darckstorme ouercome ye night, let it not be reckened amonge the dayes off the yeare, ner counted in the monethes.
As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it: Let it not rejoice among the days of the year; Let it not come into the number of the months.
That night--let the thick dark take it; let it not have joy among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.
Let the darke storme ouercome that night, and let it not be ioyned vnto the dayes of the yere, nor counted in the number of the monethes.
As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it;
As for that night, let darkenesse seaze vpon it, let it not be ioyned vnto the dayes of the yeere, let it not come into the number of the moneths.
let that day and night be cursed, let darkness carry them away; let it not come into the days of the year, neither let it be numbered with the days of the months.
As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it: let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.
Derk whirlwynde holde that niyt; be it not rikynyd among the daies of the yeer, nethir be it noumbrid among the monethes.
As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it: Don't let it rejoice among the days of the year; Don't let it come into the number of the months.
As [for] that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined to the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
As for that night, may darkness seize it;May it not rejoice [fn] among the days of the year,May it not come into the number of the months.
Let that night be blotted off the calendar, never again to be counted among the days of the year, never again to appear among the months.
As for that night, let darkness take hold of it. Let it not have joy among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of months.
That night—let thick darkness seize it! let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.
That night, darkness take it, - May it not rejoice among the days of the year, Into the number of months, let it not enter.
Let a darksome whirlwind seize upon that night, let it not be counted in the days of the year, nor numbered in the months.
That night--let thick darkness seize it! let it not rejoice among the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
That night -- let thick darkness take it, Let it not be united to days of the year, Into the number of months let it not come.
"As for that night, let darkness seize it; Let it not rejoice among the days of the year; Let it not come into the number of the months.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
let it not be joined unto the days: or, let it not rejoice among the days
Reciprocal: Job 18:2 - mark
Cross-References
Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, "Did God really say, 'You must not eat of any tree in the garden?'"
The woman answered the serpent, "We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden,
And the man answered, "The woman whom You gave me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it."
So the LORD God said to the serpent: "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and every beast of the field! On your belly will you go, and dust you will eat, all the days of your life.
And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel."
And to Adam He said: "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree from which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground-because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return."
the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they took as wives whomever they chose.
and after some time his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph and said, "Sleep with me."
When I saw among the spoils a beautiful cloak from Shinar, two hundred shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. They are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
As [for] that night,.... The night of conception; Job imprecated evils on the day he was born, now on the night he was conceived in, the returns of it:
let darkness seize upon it; let it not only he deprived of the light of the moon and stars, but let an horrible darkness seize upon it, that it may be an uncommon and a terrible one:
let it not be joined unto the days of the year; the solar year, and make one of them; or, "let it not be one among them" c, let it come into no account, and when it is sought for, let it not appear, but be found wanting; "or let it not joy" or "rejoice among the days of the year" d, as Jarchi, Aben Ezra, and others interpret it, or be a joyful one, or anything joyful done or enjoyed in it:
let it not come into the number of the months; meaning not the intercalated months, as Sephorno, nor the feasts of the new moon, as others, but let it not serve to make up a month, which consists of so many days and nights, according to the course of the moon; the sense both of this and the former clause is, let it be struck out of the calendar.
c אל יחד "non sit una inter dies", Pagninus; "ne adunatur in diebus", Montanus. d "Ne fuisset gavisa", Junius Tremellius "ne gaudeat", Vatablus, Beza, Mercerus, Piscator, Drusius, Broughton, Cocceius, Schmidt, Schultens, Michaelis.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
As for “that night.” Job, having cursed the day, proceeds to utter a malediction on the “night” also; see Job 3:3. This malediction extends to Job 3:9.
Let darkness seize upon it - Hebrew, Let it take it. Let deep and horrid darkness seize it as its own. Let no star arise upon it; let it be unbroken and uninterrupted gloom. The word “darkness,” however, does not quite express the force of the original. The word used here אפל 'ôphel is poetic, and denotes darkness more intense than is denoted by the word which is usually rendered “darkness” השׁך chôshek. It is a darkness accompanied with clouds and with a tempest. Herder understands it as meaning, that darkness should seize upon that night and bear it away, so that it should not be joined to the months of the year. So the Chaldee. But the true sense is, that Job wished so deep darkness to possess it, that no star would rise upon it; no light whatever be seen. A night like this Seneca beautifully describes in Agamemnon, verses 465ff:
Nox prima coeltum sparserat stellis,
Cum subito luna conditur, stellae cadunt;
In astra pontus tollitur, et coelum petit.
Nec una nox est, densa tenebras obruit
Caligo, et Omni luce subducta, fretum
Coelumque miscet ...
Premunt tenebrae lumina, et dirae stygis
Inferna nox est.
Let it not be joined unto the days of the year - Margin, “rejoice among.” So Good and Noyes render it. The word used here יחד yı̂chad, according to the present pointing, is the apocopated future of חדה chādâh, “to rejoice, to be glad.” If the pointing were different יחד yâchad it would be the future of יחד yachad, to be one; to be united, or joined to. The Masoretic points are of no authority, and the interpretation which supposes that the word means here to exult or rejoice, is more poetical and beautiful. It is then a representation of the days of the year as rejoicing together, and a wish is expressed that “that” night might never be allowed to partake of the general joy while the months rolled around. In this interpretation Rosenmuller and Gesenius concur. Dodwell supposes that there is an allusion to a custom among the ancients, by which inauspicious days were stricken from the calendar, and their place supplied by intercalary days. But there is no evidence of the existence of snell a custom in the time of Job.
Let it not come etc - Let it never be reckoned among the days which go to make up the number of the months. Let there be always a blank there; let its place always be lacking.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 3:6. As for that night, let darkness seize upon it — I think the Targum has hit the sense of this whole verse: "Let darkness seize upon that night; let it not be reckoned among the annual festivals; in the number of the months of the calendar let it not be computed."
Some understand the word אפל ophel as signifying a dark storm; hence the Vulgate, tenebrosus turbo, "a dark whirlwind." And hence Coverdale, Let the darck storme overcome that night, let it not be reckoned amonge the dayes off the yeare, nor counted in the monethes. Every thing is here personified; day, night, darkness, shadow of death, cloud, c. and the same idea of the total extinction of that portion of time, or its being rendered ominous and portentous, is pursued through all these verses, from the third to the ninth, inclusive. The imagery is diversified, the expressions varied, but the idea is the same.
