Job 3:5
Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it; let clouds dwell upon it; let darkeners of the day terrify it.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
4That day let it be darkness, let not God care for it from above, neither let 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, clouds, and obscurity.
Job 10:22A land of gloom, as darkness itself; of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as thick darkness.
Job 24:17For the morning is to them all [as] the shadow of death; for they are familiar with the terrors of the shadow of death.
Job 34:22There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
Psalms 23:4Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
Psalms 107:10Such as inhabit darkness and the shadow of death, 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 →