Job 3:5
Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell upon it. Let blackness come upon it.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
4Let that day be darkness. Let not God from above seek for it, nor let the light shine upon it.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:11And ye came near and stood under the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire to the heart of heaven, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.
Job 10:22the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as midnight.
Job 24:17For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness. For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
Job 34:22There is no darkness, nor thick gloom where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
Psalms 23:4Yea, tho I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou are with me, thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
Psalms 107:10[even] those who sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,
Matthew Henry on Job 3:2-11
Job Curses His Day. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. 2 And Job spake, and said, 3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived. 4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. 5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. 6 As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto… Read the whole commentary →