Job 3:5
May darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. 1 May a cloud live over it; 1 may everything that makes the day black truly terrify it. 1
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4May that day be dark; 1 may not God from above call it to mind, 1 neither may the sun shine on it. 1
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:11You came near and stood at the foot of the mountain. The mountain burned with fire to the heart of heaven, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.
Job 10:22the land that is as dark as midnight, 1 the land of the shadow of death, without any order, 1 where the light is like midnight.'”
Job 24:17For all of them, thick darkness is like the morning; 1 for they are friends with the terrors of thick darkness. 1
Job 34:22There is no darkness, no thick gloom 1 where the doers of iniquity may hide themselves. 1
Psalms 23:4Even though I walk through a valley of darkest shadow, 1 I will not fear harm since you are with me; 1 your rod and your staff comfort me. 1
Psalms 107:10Some sat in darkness and in gloom, 1 prisoners in affliction and chains. 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 →