Job 3:3 | JFB | STEP | 3. the night in which-- rather "the night which said." The words in italics are not in the Hebrew. Night is personified and poetically made to speak. So in , and in . The birth of a male in the East is a matter of joy; often not so of a female.

‏ Job 3:3

3. the night in which--rather "the night which said." The words in italics are not in the Hebrew. Night is personified and poetically made to speak. So in Job 3:7, and in Psa 19:2. The birth of a male in the East is a matter of joy; often not so of a female.