Job 3:7

"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."

Key Reflection

In Job 3:7, this passage speaks to a profound desire for relief from suffering, where even the night is cursed—not just as a period of darkness but as a representation of despair and pain that overshadow any moments of joy or hope. By excluding it from the cycle of days and months, Job expresses an intense wish to escape his current state entirely.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Lo, let that night be solitary -Dr. Good, “O! that night! Let it be a barren rock!” Noyes, “O let that night be unfruitful!” Herder, “Let that night be set apart by itself.” The Hebrew word used hereגלמוּדgalmûdmeans properly “hard;” then sterile, barren, as of a hard and rocky soil. It does not mean properly solitary, but that which is unproductive and unfruitful. It is used of a woman who is barren,Isaiah 49:21, and also of that which is lean, famished, emaciated with hunger;Job 15:34;Job 30:3. According to this it means that that should be a night in which none would be born - a night of loneliness and desolation.

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