Job 3:5

Let darkness and death-shade buy it back, May there settle down upon it a cloud, Let a day’s dark eclipse cause it terror:

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

In Context

4That day, be it darkness,—Let not God enquire after it from above, May there shine upon it no clear beam:

6That night, darkness take it,—May it not rejoice among the days of the year, Into the number of months, let it not enter.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:11So ye drew near and stood, under the mountain. Now, the mountain, was burning with fire, up to the midst of the heavens,—darkness, cloud, and thick gloom.

Job 10:22A land of obscurity, like thick darkness, of death-shade and disorder, and which shineth like thick darkness.

Job 24:17For, in the case of all such, morning to them is the death-shade, For, to be recognised, is a death-shade terror.

Job 34:22No darkness, and no death-shade, where the workers of iniquity may hide.

Psalms 23:4Yea, though I walk through a valley death-shadowed, I will fear no harm, for, thou, art with me, Thy rod and thy staff, they, comfort me.

Psalms 107:10The dwellers in darkness and death-shade, bound with oppression and 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 →

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