Job 3:5
But let darkenesse, and the shadowe of death staine it: let the cloude remayne vpon it, and let them make it fearefull as a bitter day.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
4Let that day bee darkenesse, let not God regarde it from aboue, neyther let the light shine vpon it,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:11Then came you neere and stoode vnder the mountaine, and the mountaine burnt with fire vnto the mids of heauen, and there was darkenesse, cloudes and mist.
Job 10:22Into a land, I say, darke as darknes it selfe, and into the shadow of death, where is none order, but the light is there as darkenesse.
Job 24:17But the morning is euen to them as the shadow of death: if one knowe them, they are in the terrours of the shadowe of death.
Job 34:22There is no darkenesse nor shadowe of death, that the workers of iniquitie might be hid therein.
Psalms 23:4Yea, though I should walke through the valley of the shadowe of death, I will feare no euill: for thou art with me: thy rod and thy staffe, they comfort me.
Psalms 107:10They that dwell in darkenesse and in the shadowe of death, being bounde in miserie and yron,
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 →