Job 3:6
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. 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.
As for that night, it is to be seized by darkness and left out of the reckoning of time, as if unjoined to the days of the year and uncounted in the number of the months. It is part of Job's lament under affliction, an outburst of despair and rebellion that shows how deeply trouble had discomposed his heart. It stands within the poetic arguments carried on between Job and his friends over the cause and purpose of human suffering. There the book takes up the great problems of an overruling providence, and of sin and suffering, that have perplexed humanity through all ages.
Job is set forth as a real person, whose trial and patience furnish a lesson. God was disciplining him and bringing him through the fire of affliction, while his three friends charged him with sin and declared that his sufferings were because of sin. What those friends urged about evil and reward was generally true, yet it was misapplied to Job's case. The warning for today is not to misjudge fellow sufferers after their manner.