Job 3:6
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New International Version (©1984)
That night--may thick darkness seize it; may it not be included among the days of the year nor be entered in any of the months.

New Living Translation (©2007)
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.

English Standard Version (©2001)
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.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"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.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
"That night- let the blackness take it away. Let it not be included in the days of the year or be numbered among the months.

King James Bible
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.

American King James Version
As for that night, let darkness seize on it; let it not be joined to the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

American Standard Version
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.

Bible in Basic English
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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let a darksome whirlwind seize upon that night, let it not be counted in the days of the year, nor numbered in the months.

Darby Bible Translation
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.

English Revised Version
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.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

World English Bible
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.

Young's Literal Translation
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.

Geneva Study Bible

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.

Wesley's Notes

3:6 Darkness - Constant and extraordinary darkness, without the least glimmering of light from the moon or stars. Be joined - Reckoned as one, or a part of one of them.

King James Translators' Notes

let it not be...: or, let it not rejoice among the days

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

6. seize upon it-as its prey, that is, utterly dissolve it.

joined unto the days of the year-rather, by poetic personification, "Let it not rejoice in the circle of days and nights and months, which form the circle of years."

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

3:1-10 For seven days Job's friends sat by him in silence, without offering consolidation: at the same time Satan assaulted his mind to shake his confidence, and to fill him with hard thoughts of God. The permission seems to have extended to this, as well as to torturing the body. Job was an especial type of Christ, whose inward sufferings, both in the garden and on the cross, were the most dreadful; and arose in a great degree from the assaults of Satan in that hour of darkness. These inward trials show the reason of the change that took place in Job's conduct, from entire submission to the will of God, to the impatience which appears here, and in other parts of the book. The believer, who knows that a few drops of this bitter cup are more dreadful than the sharpest outward afflictions, while he is favoured with a sweet sense of the love and presence of God, will not be surprised to find that Job proved a man of like passions with others; but will rejoice that Satan was disappointed, and could not prove him a hypocrite; for though he cursed the day of his birth, he did not curse his God. Job doubtless was afterwards ashamed of these wishes, and we may suppose what must be his judgment of them now he is in everlasting happiness.


Job 3:5 "Let darkness and black gloom claim it; Let a cloud settle on it; Let the blackness of the day terrify it.
Job 3:7 "Behold, let that night be barren; Let no joyful shout enter it. (NASB ©1995)

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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.

let it not be joined unto the days. or, let it not rejoice among the days. 6

Bible Gateway: Job Chapter 3 Verse 6 NIV ESV NKJV NLT KJV Message Amplified

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