Job 3:5
Take 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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In Context
4Turn that day to darkness. God above should not remember it. Don't let light shine on it.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:11You gathered and stood at the foot of the mountain. The mountain was on fire, shooting out flames into the sky and producing thick dark clouds.
Job 10:22the land of total darkness where death's shadow lies, a place of chaos where light itself is darkness.”
Job 24:17Total darkness is like light to them, for they are familiar with the night.
Job 34:22There is no darkness so deep where people who do evil can hide themselves from him.
Psalms 23:4Even when I walk through the valley dark as death, I'm not afraid of any evil, because you are right there with me; your rod and your staff protect me.
Psalms 107:10Some sat in complete darkness, prisoners of misery and bound with iron chains,
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 →