Job 3:7 “Behold, may that night be barren; may no joyful voice come into it.”

Job 3:7

Behold, may that night be barren; may no joyful voice come into it.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein.

American Standard Version

Lo, let that night be barren; Let no joyful voice come therein.

Geneva Bible 1599

Yea, desolate be that night, and let no ioy be in it.

Darby Translation

Behold, let that night be barren; let no joyful sound come therein;

Young's Literal Translation

Lo! that night — let it be gloomy, Let no singing come into it.

Bible in Basic English

As for that night, let it have no fruit; let no voice of joy be sounded in it;

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Cross references

“solitary”

Isaiah 13:20–22 Isaiah 24:8 Jeremiah 7:34 Revelation 18:22 Revelation 18:23

Isaiah 13:20–22 · BSB

She will never be inhabited or settled from generation to generation; no nomad will pitch his tent there, no shepherd will rest his flock there.

Isaiah 24:8 · BSB

The joyful tambourines have ceased; the noise of revelers has stopped; the joyful harp is silent.

Jeremiah 7:34 · BSB

I will remove from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem the sounds of joy and gladness and the voices of the bride and bridegroom, for the land will become a wasteland.”

Revelation 18:22 · BSB

And the sound of harpists and musicians, of flute players and trumpeters, will never ring out in you again. Nor will any craftsmen of any trade be found in you again, nor the sound of a millstone be heard in you again.

Revelation 18:23 · BSB

The light of a lamp will never shine in you again, and the voices of a bride and bridegroom will never call out in you again. For your merchants were the great ones of the earth, because all the nations were deceived by…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

6If only darkness had taken that night away! May it not appear among the days of the year; may it never be entered in any of the months.

8May it be cursed by those who curse the day — those prepared to rouse Leviathan.

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