Job 3:5
Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
In Context
4Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:11And all of you came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.
Job 10:22A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
Job 24:17For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
Job 34:22There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
Psalms 23:4Yea, 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 107:10Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction 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 →