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Job 3:6

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3:6That night—let darkness seize17 it;

let it not be included18 among the days of the year;

let it not enter among the number of the months!19

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Footnotes

  1. 17 The verb is simply לָקַח (laqakh, “to take”). Here it conveys a strong sense of seizing something and not letting it go.
  2. 18 The pointing of the verb is meant to connect it with the root חָדָה (khadah, “rejoice”). But the letters in the text were correctly understood by the versions to be from יָחַד (yakhad, “to be combined, added”). See G. Rendsburg, “Double Polysemy in Genesis 49:6 and Job 3:6,” 44 (1982): 48–51.
  3. 19 The choice of this word for “moons,” יְרָחִים (yérakhim) instead of חֳדָשִׁים (khodashim) is due to the fact that “month” here is not a reference for which an exact calendar date is essential (in which case חֹדֶשׁ [khodesh] would have been preferred). See J. Segal, “ ‘yrh’ in the Gezer ‘Calendar,’ ” 7 (1962): 220, n. 4. Twelve times in the OT יֶרַח (yerakh) means “month” (Exod 2:2; Deut 21:13; 33:14; 1 Kgs 6:37, 38; 8:2; 2 Kgs 15:13; Zech 11:8; Job 3:6; 7:3; 29:2; 39:2).

The NET Bible First Edition, Copyright 1996-2005 by Biblical Studies Press

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

That night—let thick darkness seize it!

Let it not rejoice among the days of the year;

let it not come into the number of the months.

Copyright 2001 Crossway Bibles

NIVNew International Version (2011)

That night—may thick darkness seize it;

may it not be included among the days of the year

nor be entered in any of the months.

Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 Biblica, Inc.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

If only darkness had taken that night away!

May it not appear among the days of the year

or be listed in the calendar.

Copyright 2017 Holman Bible Publishers

NLTNew Living Translation

Let that night be blotted off the calendar,

never again to be counted among the days of the year,

never again to appear among the months.

Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Let darkness seize that night;

let it not rejoice among the days of the year;

let it not enter among the number of the months.

Copyright 2012 Lexham Press

KJV 1900King James Version

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.

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