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Verse         Translation Text
Job 3:6 Strong Concordance As for that night [03915], let darkness [0652] seize [03947] upon it; let it not be joined [02302] unto the days [03117] of the year [08141], let it not come [0935] into the number [04557] of the months [03391].
  King James 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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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
seize upon it--as its prey, that is, utterly dissolve it.

joined unto the days of the year--rather, by poetic personification, "Let it not rejoice in the circle of days and nights and months, which form the circle of years."
 
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9 Let the stars [03556] of the twilight [05399] thereof be dark [02821]; let it look [06960] for light [0216], but have none; neither let it see [07200] the dawning [06079] of the day [07837]:
3 Let the day [03117] perish [06] wherein I was born [03205], and the night [03915] in which it was said [0559], There is a man child [01397] conceived [02029].
8 Let them curse [05344] it that curse [0779] the day [03117], who are ready [06264] to raise up [05782] their mourning [03882].
37 Who can number [05608] the clouds [07834] in wisdom [02451]? or who can stay [07901] the bottles [05035] of heaven [08064],
6 O my soul [05315], come [0935] not thou into their secret [05475]; unto their assembly [06951], mine honour [03519], be not thou united [03161]: for in their anger [0639] they slew [02026] a man [0376], and in their selfwill [07522] they digged down [06131] a wall [07794].
9 And Jethro [03503] rejoiced [02302] for all the goodness [02896] which the LORD [03068] had done [06213] to Israel [03478], whom he had delivered [05337] out of the hand [03027] of the Egyptians [04714].