Verse 6
Job 3:6
English Revised Version
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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.
Original Language Text
hebrew
הַ/לַּ֥יְלָה הַ/הוּא֮ יִקָּחֵ֪/ה֫וּ אֹ֥פֶל אַל יִ֭חַדְּ בִּ/ימֵ֣י שָׁנָ֑ה בְּ/מִסְפַּ֥ר יְ֝רָחִ֗ים אַל יָבֹֽא
English Translation
The night will not take away the darkness; in the days of the year, in the number of months, it shall not come.
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Chapter 3 Context
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After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
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And Job answered and said:
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Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night which said, There is a man child conceived.
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Let that day be darkness; let not God (Elohim) regard it from above, neither let the light shine upo...
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Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own; let a cloud dwell upon it; let all that...
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As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it: let it not rejoice among the days of the year;...
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Lo, let that night be barren; let no joyful voice come therein.
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Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
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Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark: let it look for light, but have none; neither let it...
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Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid trouble from mine eyes.
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Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
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Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts, that I should suck?
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For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest:
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With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built up waste places for themselves;
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Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
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Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
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There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
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There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
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The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
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Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
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Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
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Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
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Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God (Elohim) hath hedged in?
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For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like water.
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For the thing which I fear cometh upon me, and that which I am afraid of cometh unto me.
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I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; but trouble cometh.
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