“Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.”
Job wishes for the night to be solitary and empty of the joyful shout that marks the announcement of a child's birth, reversing the blessing implicit in the cry of newborns and the celebration of fertility. The absence of the joy cry represents the negation of maternal blessing and social recognition, reducing the night to a wasteland of diminished meaning. This reversal of fertility blessings reveals the inversion of all positive meaning that suffering produces.
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