Job 3:5
May darkness and gloom reclaim it, and a cloud settle over it; may the blackness of the day overwhelm it.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
4If only that day had turned to darkness! May God above disregard it; may no light shine upon it.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:11You came near and stood at the base of the mountain, a mountain blazing with fire to the heavens, with black clouds and deep darkness.
Job 10:22to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”
Job 24:17For to them, deep darkness is their morning; surely they are friends with the terrors of darkness!
Job 34:22There is no darkness or deep shadow where the workers of iniquity can hide.
Psalms 23:4Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
Psalms 107:10Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and 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 →