Job 3:7

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Behold, let that night be barren; let no joyful voice enter it.

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  • Isa 13:20-22 : 20 It will never be inhabited or lived in through all generations; no Arab will pitch his tent there, and no shepherds will let their flocks lie down there. 21 But desert creatures will lie there; their houses will be full of howling creatures. Owls will dwell there, and goat-demons will dance there. 22 Hyenas will cry in its towers, and jackals in its luxurious palaces. Her time is near to come, and her days will not be prolonged.
  • Isa 24:8 : 8 The joy of tambourines ceases, the noise of revelers stops, and the joyful sound of the harp is silenced.
  • Jer 7:34 : 34 I will bring an end to the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and groom, in the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem, for the land will become desolate.
  • Rev 18:22-23 : 22 The sound of harpists, musicians, flute players, and trumpeters will never be heard in you again. No craftsman of any trade will ever be found in you again. The sound of a millstone will never be heard in you again. 23 The light of a lamp will never shine in you again. The voice of a bridegroom and bride will never be heard in you again. For your merchants were the great ones of the earth, and all the nations were deceived by your sorcery.

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  • Job 3:2-6
    5 verses
    89%

    2And Job answered and said:

    3Let the day perish on which I was born, and the night that said, 'A man is conceived.'

    4May that day be darkness; may God above not seek it, nor let light shine upon it.

    5Let darkness and deep shadow claim it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let blackness of the day terrify it.

    6As for that night, let thick darkness seize it; let it not be joined to the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.

  • Job 3:8-10
    3 verses
    83%

    8Let those who curse the day curse it, those who are skilled to rouse Leviathan.

    9Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light but have none, nor see the eyelids of the morning.

    10Because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes.

  • 20Do not long for the night, when people are taken from their place.

  • Job 7:3-4
    2 verses
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    3so I have been allotted months of futility, and nights of misery have been assigned to me.

    4When I lie down, I think, 'When will I get up?' But the night drags on, and I am filled with tossing till dawn.

  • Job 18:5-6
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    5Indeed, the light of the wicked will be extinguished, and the flame of his fire will not shine.

    6The light in his tent will grow dark, and the lamp above him will be extinguished.

  • 6Therefore night will come over you—without visions; the darkness will fall—without divination. The sun will set for the prophets, and the day will grow dark for them.

  • 9In the twilight, in the evening, in the dark of night and in deep darkness.

  • 20Won’t the day of the Lord be darkness and not light, gloom with no brightness in it?

  • Job 17:12-13
    2 verses
    71%

    12They make night into day: ‘The light is near,’ they say, in the presence of darkness.

    13If I hope for Sheol as my home, and I make my bed in darkness,

  • 22A land of gloom like deep darkness, a land of shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.

  • Job 3:16-17
    2 verses
    71%

    16Or why was I not like a stillborn child, like infants who never saw the light?

    17There the wicked cease from turmoil, and there the weary are at rest.

  • 10But no one asks, 'Where is God, my Maker, who gives songs in the night?'

  • 18He is driven from light into darkness and chased out of the world.

  • 16May that man be like the cities the LORD overthrew without relenting. May he hear cries of distress in the morning and shouts of alarm at noon.

  • Job 24:16-17
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    16In the darkness, they break into houses, but by day, they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.

    17For to them, the morning is like deep darkness; they are familiar with the terrors of the shadow of death.

  • 20Are not my days few? Leave me alone, so I may have a moment of relief.

  • 23All their days are full of sorrow, and their work is filled with grief; even at night their mind does not rest. This too is meaningless.

  • 17Yet I am not silenced by the darkness or by the deep gloom that covers my face.

  • 14In the evening, sudden terror! Before morning, they are no more. This is the fate of those who plunder us and the lot of those who pillage us.

  • 30On that day, they will roar over it like the roaring of the sea. And if one looks at the land, there is only darkness and distress; even the light is darkened by the clouds.

  • 20Why is light given to those in misery, and life to the bitter in soul?

  • 15That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of devastation and desolation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness.

  • 13In disquieting dreams from visions of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men,

  • 11It is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of waters covers you.

  • 2Before the sun, light, moon, and stars grow dark, and the clouds return after the rain.

  • 11If I say, 'Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,'

  • 10Joy and gladness are taken away from the fertile fields. In the vineyards, no songs are sung, no cheers are heard. No one treads out wine in the presses—the cheerful shouting has stopped.

  • 10The stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened as it rises, and the moon will not shine its light.

  • 4For it comes in vain and departs in darkness, and its name is covered in darkness.

  • 14They encounter darkness by day and grope in the noonday as if it were night.

  • 11In the streets, there is an outcry over the wine; all joy turns dark, and the gladness of the earth departs.

  • 17At night my bones are pierced within me, and my veins find no rest.

  • 23To a man whose path is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?

  • 20Terrors overtake him like a flood; in the night a storm sweeps him away.

  • 2He has driven me away and brought me into darkness, not into light.

  • 22Then they will look toward the earth and see only distress and darkness and fearful gloom, and they will be thrust into utter darkness.

  • 14Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother gave birth to me not be blessed.

  • 17Though the fig tree does not blossom and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the sheep are cut off from the fold and there are no cattle in the stalls,

  • 4My heart staggers; terror overwhelms me. The twilight I longed for has been turned into trembling for me.