Job 3:5
As for that lailah, 1 let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the yamim of the shanah, 1 let it not come into the number of the months. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
6Hinei, let that lailah be barren; 1 let no joyful shout come therein. 1
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:11And ye came near and stood at the foot of the mountain; the mountain burned with eish unto the midst of Shomayim, with choshech, and anan, and thick darkness.
Job 10:22An eretz of darkness, like darkness itself; 1 and of tzalmavet, no sedarim (order), 1 where the light is like darkness.
Job 24:17For the boker is to them even as the tzalmavet; 1 they are friends with the terrors of tzalmavet. 1
Job 34:22There is no choshech, nor tzalmavet, 1 where the po'alei aven (evildoers) may hide themselves. 1
Psalms 23:4Yea, though I walk through the Gey Tzalmavet (Valley of the Shadow of Death), 1 I will fear no rah (evil); 1 for Thou art with me; 1 Thy shevet (rod) and Thy staff they comfort me. 1
Psalms 107:10Such as sit in choshech and in tzalmavet, 1 being bound in oni and barzel (iron); 1
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 →