Job 3:7
Good News Translation
make it a barren, joyless night.

New Revised Standard Version
Yes, let that night be barren; let no joyful cry be heard in it.

Contemporary English Version
Don't let children be created or joyful shouts be heard ever again in that night.

New American Bible
May that night be barren; let no joyful outcry greet it!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let that night be solitary, and not worthy of praise.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Let that night be solitary, and not worthy of praise.

solitary.

Isaiah 13:20-22 It shall no more be inhabited for ever, and it shall not be founded unto generation and generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch his tents there, nor shall shepherds rest there. . . .

Isaiah 24:8 The mirth of timbrels hath ceased, the noise of them that rejoice is ended, the melody of the harp is silent.

Jeremiah 7:34 And I will cause to cease out of the cities of Juda, and out of the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.

Revelation 18:22,23 And the voice of harpers and of musicians and of them that play on the pipe and on the trumpet shall no more be heard at all in thee: and no craftsman of any art whatsoever shall be found any more at all in thee: and the sound of the mill shall be heard no more at all in thee: . . .

Context
Job Laments His Birth
6Let a darksome whirlwind seize upon that night, let it not be counted in the days of the year, nor numbered in the months. 7Let that night be solitary, and not worthy of praise.8Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to raise up a leviathan:…
Cross References
Job 3:6
Let a darksome whirlwind seize upon that night, let it not be counted in the days of the year, nor numbered in the months.

Job 3:8
Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to raise up a leviathan:

Job 3:6
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