Job 3:5

Let darkness and death-shade redeem it, Let a cloud tabernacle upon it, Let them terrify it as the most bitter of days.

Young's Literal Translation

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 — let it be darkness, Let not God require it from above, Nor let light shine upon it.

6That night — let thick darkness take it, Let it not be united to days of the year, Into the number of months let it not come.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:11and ye draw near and stand under the mountain, and the mountain is burning with fire unto the heart of the heavens — darkness, cloud, yea, thick darkness:

Job 10:22A land of obscurity as thick darkness, Death-shade — and no order, And the shining [is] as thick darkness.'

Job 24:17When together, morning [is] to them death shade, When he discerneth the terrors of death shade.

Job 34:22There is no darkness nor death-shade, For workers of iniquity to be hidden there;

Psalms 23:4Also — when I walk in a valley of death-shade, I fear no evil, for Thou [art] with me, Thy rod and Thy staff — they comfort me.

Psalms 107:10Inhabitants of dark places and death-shade, Prisoners of affliction and of 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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