Job 3:4

Turn that day to darkness. God above should not remember it. Don't let light shine on it.

Free Bible Version

In The King James Version

Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.

In Context

3“Wipe out the day I was born, and the night when it was announced that a boy had been conceived.

5Take it back, darkness and death-shadow. A black cloud should overshadow it. It should be as terrifying as the darkness of an eclipse during the day.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 11:12It is a land that the Lord your God takes care of. The Lord your God is always watching over it, all year long.

Amos 5:18How disastrous it will be for those of you who long for the day of the Lord. Why would you want the day of the Lord to come? It will bring darkness, not light.

Acts 27:20We hadn't seen the sun or the stars for many days as the storm beat down on us; so any hope of our being saved was lost.

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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