Job 3:5
Let darkness and the shadow of death obscure it, let a fog overtake it, and let it be enveloped in bitterness.
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Deuteronomy 4:11And you approached the base of the mountain, which was burning even toward heaven. And there was a darkness upon it, and a cloud, and a mist.
Job 10:22a land of misery and darkness, where the shadow of death, and nothing else but everlasting horror, dwells.
Job 24:17If sunrise should suddenly appear, it is treated by them like the shadow of death; and they walk in darkness, as if in light.
Job 34:22There is no darkness and no shadow of death, where those who work iniquity may be hidden.
Psalms 23:4The innocent of hands and the clean of heart, who has not received his soul in vain, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbor.
Psalms 107:10Moab is the cooking pot of my hope. I will extend my shoe in Idumea; the foreigners have become my friends.
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 →