May a cloud settle on it;
May the blackness of the day terrify it.
May it not1 rejoice among the days of the year,
May it not come into the number of the months.
May it look for light, but have none,
And not see the1 dawning of the day;
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Job 3:7
Lo, let that night be solitary - The word hinneh , behold, or lo, is wanting in one of De Rossi' s MSS., nor is it expressed in the Septuagint, Vulgate, Syriac, or Arabic. The word galmud , which we translate solitary, is properly Arabic. From ghalama or jalama , signifying to cut off, make bare, amputate, comes jalmud , a rock, a great stone; and jalameedet , weight, a burden, trouble, from which we may gather Job' s meaning: "Let that night be grievous, oppressive, as destitute of good as a bare rock is of verdure." The Targum gives the sense, In that night let there be tribulation.
Let no joyful voice come therein - Let there be no choirs of singers; no pleasant music heard; no dancing or merriment. The word renanah signifies any brisk movement, such as the vibration of the rays of light, or the brisk modulation of the voice in a cheerful ditty. The Targum has, Let not the crowing of the rural or wild cock resound in it. Let all work be intermitted; let there be no sportive exercises, and let all animals be totally silent.
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