Job 3:5
Let darkness and death-shade redeem it, || Let a cloud dwell on it, || Let them terrify it as the most bitter of days.
Literal Standard Version
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In Context
4That day—let it be darkness, || Do not let God require it from above, || Nor let light shine on it.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:11and you draw near and stand under the mountain, and the mountain is burning with fire to the heart of the heavens, [with] darkness, cloud, and thick darkness,
Job 10:22A land of obscurity as thick darkness, || Death-shade—and no order, || And the shining [is] as thick darkness.”
Job 24:17When together, morning [is] death-shade to them, || When he discerns the terrors of death-shade.
Job 34:22There is no darkness nor death-shade, || For workers of iniquity to be hidden there;
Psalms 23:4Also—when I walk in a valley of death-shade, || I fear no evil, for You [are] with me, || Your rod and Your staff—they comfort me.
Psalms 107:10Inhabitants of dark places and death-shade, || Prisoners of affliction and of 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 →