Job 3:5

Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

In Context

4That day--let it be dark; let not God take note of it from on high, and let not the light be shining on it;

6That night--let the thick dark take it; let it not have joy among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:11And you came near, waiting at the foot of the mountain; and flames of fire went up from the mountain to the heart of heaven, with dark clouds, and all was black as night.

Job 10:22A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.

Job 24:17For the middle of the night is as morning to them, they are not troubled by the fear of the dark.

Job 34:22There is no dark place, and no thick cloud, in which the workers of evil may take cover.

Psalms 23:4Yes, though I go through the valley of deep shade, I will have no fear of evil; for you are with me, your rod and your support are my comfort.

Psalms 107:10Those who were in the dark, in the black night, in chains of sorrow 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 →

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