Job 3 · Verse 7

Job 3:7

Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
Job 3:7, King James Version

Job 3:7 in other translations

BSBBehold, may that night be barren; may no joyful voice come into it.
WEBBehold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein.
ASVLo, let that night be barren; Let no joyful voice come therein.
YLTLo! that night--let it be gloomy, Let no singing come into it.
DARBYBehold, let that night be barren; let no joyful sound come therein;
BBEAs for that night, let it have no fruit; let no voice of joy be sounded in it;
WebsterLo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.

What does Job 3:7 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
7. solitary--rather, "unfruitful." "Would that it had not given birth to me."

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 7 Lo, let that night be solitary - The word הנה hinneh, behold, or lo, is wanting in one of De Rossi's MSS., nor is it expressed in the Septuagint, Vulgate, Syriac, or Arabic. The word גלמוד galmud, which we translate solitary, is properly Arabic. From ghalama or jalama, signifying to cut off, make bare, amputate, comes jalmud, a rock, a great stone; and jalameedet, weight, a burden, trouble, from which we may gather Job's meaning: "Let that night be grievous, oppressive, as destitute of good as a bare rock is of verdure." The Targum gives the sense, In that night let there be tribulation. Let no joyful voice come therein - Let there be no choirs of singers; no pleasant music heard; no dancing or merriment. The word רננה renanah signifies any brisk movement, such as the vibration of the rays of light, or the brisk modulation of the voice in a cheerful ditty. The Targum has, Let not the crowing of the rural or wild cock resound in it. Let all work be intermitted; let there be no sportive exercises, and let all animals be totally silent.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 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…

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Job 3:7 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

הִנֵּ֤הhi.Nehthere!H2009
הַלַּ֣יְלָהha.Lay.lahthe nightH3915
הַ֭הוּאHa.hu'<the> thatH1931
יְהִ֣יye.Hilet it beH1961
גַלְמ֑וּדgal.MudbarrenH1565
אַל\־'al-may notH408
תָּבֹ֖אta.Vo'it comeH935
רְנָנָ֣הre.na.Naha cry of joyH7445
בֽוֹ\׃voin it

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 3:7

  • Isaiah 13:20-22

    It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.

  • Jeremiah 7:34

    Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.

  • Revelation 18:22-23

    And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee; And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.

  • Isaiah 24:8

    The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
solitary.
Isa 13:20-22; 24:8; Jer 7:34; Re 18:22,23

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Job 3:6

    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.

  • Job 3:7

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

  • Job 3:8

    Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.

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Job 3:7 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		¡Oh si fuere aquella noche solitaria, que no viniera canción alguna en ella!
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Voici, que cette nuit-là soit stérile; que les cris de joie n’y entrent pas!
German
Elberfelder 1871		Siehe, jene Nacht sei unfruchtbar, es trete kein Jubel in sie ein!
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Sit nox illa solitaria, nec laude digna.