Job 3:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Let that night be solitary— Be full of grief. Houbigant; which is the proper contrast to the following clause; for we here observe, once for all, that the poetry of Job is of the same kind with that of the preceding pieces in the Old Testament, in which, as we have before remarked, the latter clause corresponds to, and explains the foregoing. See the notes on Genesis 49 and Exod. xv, &c.