Job 3:7

Job 3:7 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
• New International Version (NIV)May that night be barren; may no shout of joy be heard in it.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Behold, let that night be barren; let no joyful cry enter it.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Oh, may that night be barren! May no joyful shout come into it!

Context of Job 3:7

5That day should remain in a dark shadow. Clouds should cover it so that everywhere is black. 6Remove that night completely! It should no longer be a date among the days of the year. Remove that day from the months of the year. Do not let women become pregnant on that night. Nobody should be happy! 8People who know how to curse days should curse that day. They should wake up Leviathan, the monster from the sea, to attack it. 9The stars of early morning should be dark on that day. Do not let the sun shine at dawn, so that there is no end to the dark night.

Job 3:7 word by word

הִנֵּ֤ה הַלַּ֣יְלָה הַ֭הוּא יְהִ֣י גַלְמ֑וּד אַל־תָּבֹ֖א רְנָנָ֣ה בֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Lo, let that nightלַ֫יְלָהlayil lêyl layelâh · nightH3915
• be solitaryגַּלְמוּדgalmûd · solitaryH1565
• let no joyful voiceרְנָנָהrenânâh · triumphingH7445
• comeבּוֹאbô' · to come (in): comeH935

Cross-references for Job 3:7

• Isaiah 13:20The people and their descendants will never live there again. No Arab will put his tent there. No shepherds will take their sheep there to rest.
• Isaiah 24:8The happy sound of tambourines has stopped. The noise from parties has finished. The harps no longer make any happy music.
• Jeremiah 7:34Jerusalem and all of Judah will become like a desert where nobody lives. There will be no noise of happy people. There will be no happy songs or marriage parties. The whole land will be quiet.’
• Revelation 18:22Nobody will ever hear music in the city again. Nobody will sing there. Nobody will make music with harps, or with flutes, or with trumpets. There will never be workers who make things in the city. Nobody will ever hear the sound of people who make flour again.

Commentaries on Job 3:7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7Lo, 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…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7Lo, 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 here גלמוּד galmûd means 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…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-10Job spoke and risked words of sin (1:21; 2:10). Job cursed the day of his birth in great detail. However, his words sounded more like sad complaints. Job did not curse God as his creator, but he showed grief about the condition of his life.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. solitary--rather, "unfruitful." "Would that it had not given birth to me."Read the comment

Topics related to Job 3:7

• Afflictions and Adversities
• Despondency
• Prayer

In the dictionaries

• Above
• Dig
• Poetry
• Roaring
• Safety
• Solitary
• Job, Book of
• barren, dry

Commentaries on Job 3

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings