6 That night-may thick darkness seize it; may it not be included among the days of the year nor be entered in any of the months.
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.
6 That night--let thick darkness seize it! Let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.
6 And the night of my conception - the devil take it! Rip the date off the calendar, delete it from the almanac.
6 As for that night, may darkness seize it; May it not rejoice among the days of the year, May it not come into the number of the months.
6 Let that night be blotted off the calendar, never again to be counted among the days of the year, never again to appear among the months.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 3:6
Commentary on Job 3:1-10
(Read Job 3:1-10)
For seven days Job's friends sat by him in silence, without offering consolidation: at the same time Satan assaulted his mind to shake his confidence, and to fill him with hard thoughts of God. The permission seems to have extended to this, as well as to torturing the body. Job was an especial type of Christ, whose inward sufferings, both in the garden and on the cross, were the most dreadful; and arose in a great degree from the assaults of Satan in that hour of darkness. These inward trials show the reason of the change that took place in Job's conduct, from entire submission to the will of God, to the impatience which appears here, and in other parts of the book. The believer, who knows that a few drops of this bitter cup are more dreadful than the sharpest outward afflictions, while he is favoured with a sweet sense of the love and presence of God, will not be surprised to find that Job proved a man of like passions with others; but will rejoice that Satan was disappointed, and could not prove him a hypocrite; for though he cursed the day of his birth, he did not curse his God. Job doubtless was afterwards ashamed of these wishes, and we may suppose what must be his judgment of them now he is in everlasting happiness.