The Meaning of Job 3:6 Explained

Job 3:6

KJV: 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.

YLT: That night -- let thick darkness take it, Let it not be united to days of the year, Into the number of months let it not come.

Darby: That night let gloom seize upon it; let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.

ASV: As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it: Let it not rejoice among the days of the year; Let it not come into the number of the months.

Discover Job 3:6

CONTEXT: What is the Context of Job 3:6?

MEANING: What does Job 3:6 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Job 3:6 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Job 3:6?

What is the context of Job 3:6?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

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.

What does Job 3:6 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 3:1-26 - Is Life Worth Living?

In the closing paragraphs of the previous chapter three friends arrive. Teman is Edom; for Shuah see Genesis 25:2; Naamah is Arabia. The group of spectators, gathered round Job's mound, reverently make way for them.

Job opens his mouth in a curse. But it was not, as Satan had expected, against God. The Hebrew word is different from that used in Job 2:9. He does not curse God, but the day of his birth, and asks that his stripped and suffering existence may be brought to as speedy an end as possible. Job's words are very profitable for all whose way is hid. Is the joy of life fled? Yet its duties remain. Continue in these and the path will lead back to light.

This opening elegy consists of two parts: the first, Job 3:1-10, calls on darkness to blot out the day which witnessed the beginning of so sad a life; the second, Job 3:11-26, inquires why, if he were doomed to be born, the luxury of instant death had not been also granted. Oh, human heart, of what sore anguish art thou not capable! [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 3

¹ Job curses the day and services of his birth
¹³ The ease of death
²⁰ He complains of life, because of his anguish

What do the individual words in Job 3:6 mean?

Night [As for] that may seize it darkness not May it rejoice among the days of the year into the number of the months May it come

הַלַּ֥יְלָה הַהוּא֮ יִקָּחֵ֪ה֫וּ אֹ֥פֶל אַל־ יִ֭חַדְּ בִּימֵ֣י שָׁנָ֑ה בְּמִסְפַּ֥ר יְ֝רָחִ֗ים יָבֹֽא

הַלַּ֥יְלָה	Night
Parse: Article, Noun, masculine singular Root: לַיִל Sense: night.
הַהוּא֮	[As for] that
Parse: Article, Pronoun, third person masculine singular Root: הוּא Sense: he, she, it.
יִקָּחֵ֪ה֫וּ	may seize it
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine singular, third person masculine singular Root: יָקַח Sense: to take, get, fetch, lay hold of, seize, receive, acquire, buy, bring, marry, take a wife, snatch, take away.
אֹ֥פֶל	darkness
Parse: Noun, masculine singular Root: אֹפֶל Sense: darkness, gloom.
יִ֭חַדְּ	May it rejoice
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect Jussive, third person masculine singular Root: חָדָה Sense: to rejoice.
בִּימֵ֣י	among the days
Parse: Preposition-b, Noun, masculine plural construct Root: יׄום Sense: day, time, year.
שָׁנָ֑ה	of the year
Parse: Noun, feminine singular Root: שָׁנָה Sense: year.
בְּמִסְפַּ֥ר	into the number
Parse: Preposition-b, Noun, masculine singular construct Root: מִסְפָּר Sense: number, tale.
יְ֝רָחִ֗ים	of the months
Parse: Noun, masculine plural Root: יֶרַח Sense: month (lunar cycle), moon.
יָבֹֽא	May it come
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine singular Root: בֹּוא Sense: to go in, enter, come, go, come in.

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