Job 3:5
Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own; Let a cloud dwell upon it; Let all that maketh black the day terrify it.
American Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
4Let that day be darkness; Let not God from above seek for it, Neither 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 unto the heart of heaven, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.
Job 10:22The land dark as midnight, [The land] 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, thou 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 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 →