Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
The book of Job presents the great problems that have perplexed humanity through the ages concerning overruling providence and sin and suffering. The verse stands in the opening of Job and is to be read with chapters 1 and 2. There God is disciplining Job and bringing him through the fire of affliction while his three friends charge him with sin and insist his sufferings are because of sin, and the verse belongs to Job's response to his great trouble and trial.
In it Job asks that the night of his birth be lonely and have no happy sound in it. The wish expresses despair and rebellion under trial. It shows how deeply affliction unsettled even a man known for patience. The setting teaches readers not to misjudge fellow sufferers as Job's friends did.
The book of Job presents the great problems that have perplexed humanity through the ages concerning overruling providence and sin and suffering. The verse stands in the opening of Job and is to be read with chapters 1 and 2. There God is disciplining Job and bringing him through the fire of affliction while his three friends charge him with sin and insist his sufferings are because of sin, and the verse belongs to Job's response to his great trouble and trial.
In it Job asks that the night of his birth be lonely and have no happy sound in it. The wish expresses despair and rebellion under trial. It shows how deeply affliction unsettled even a man known for patience. The setting teaches readers not to misjudge fellow sufferers as Job's friends did.