Job Laments His Birth
Job 3:7
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Behold, may that night be barren; may no joyful voice come into it.
- KJV
- Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
- WEB
- Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein.
- ASV
- Lo, let that night be barren; Let no joyful voice come therein.
- LSV
- Behold! That night—let it be barren, || Let no singing come into it.
- YLT
- Lo! that night — let it be gloomy, Let no singing come into it.
- DBY
- Behold, let that night be barren; let no joyful sound come therein;
- DRC
- Let that night be solitary, and not worthy of praise.
- GNV
- Yea, desolate be that night, and let no ioy be in it.
- JPS
- Lo, let that night be desolate; let no joyful voice come therein.
- LXXE
- But let that night be pain, and let not mirth come upon it, nor joy.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- הִנֵּ֤ה הַלַּ֣יְלָה הַ֭הוּא יְהִ֣י גַלְמ֑וּד אַל־תָּבֹ֖א רְנָנָ֣ה בֽוֹ׃
- LXX-Br
- Ἀλλὰ ἡ νὺξ ἐκείνη εἴη ὀδύνη, καὶ μὴ ἔλθοι ἐπʼ αὐτὴν εὐφροσύνη, μηδὲ χαρμονή·
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Cross-references most cited first
- Jeremiah 7:34I will remove from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem the sounds of joy and gladness and the voices of the bride and bridegroom, for the land will become a wasteland.”
- Revelation 18:22–23And the sound of harpists and musicians, of flute players and trumpeters, will never ring out in you again. Nor will any craftsmen of any trade be found in you again, nor the sound of a millstone be heard in you again.…
- Isaiah 13:20–22She will never be inhabited or settled from generation to generation; no nomad will pitch his tent there, no shepherd will rest his flock there. But desert creatures will lie down there, and howling creatures will fill…
- Isaiah 24:8The joyful tambourines have ceased; the noise of revelers has stopped; the joyful harp is silent.
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