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.
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Interpretation
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.