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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.
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A Curse to Erase Time
Job's curse on the night of his conception is a powerful poetic wish to erase it from existence. Commentators explain he desires a special 'thick darkness' to seize it and for it to be excluded from the calendar. Many scholars favor the translation 'let it not rejoice among the days,' personifying the year as a joyful procession from which this one night is forever banished, reflecting the depth of his desire for non-existence.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
As for "that night." Job, having cursed the day, proceeds to utter a malediction on the "night" also (). This malediction extends to Job 3:9.
19th Century
Anglican
Let it not be joined. —Rather, let it not rejoice among, as one of the glorious procession of nights.
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
As [for] that night The night of conception; Job imprecated evils on the day he was born, now on the night he was co…
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For seven days Job's friends sat by him in silence, without offering consolation: at the same time Satan assaulted his mind to shake his confidence…
13th Century
Catholic
In Chapter 2, I explained that ancient philosophers held two opinions about the passions. The Stoics said that there was no place for sorrow in the…