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Job 3:4

Discouragement and depression

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.

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 the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

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Compare

BSB
If only that day had turned to darkness! May God above disregard it; may no light shine upon it.
KJV
Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
WEB
Let that day be darkness. Don’t let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.
ASV
Let that day be darkness; Let not God from above seek for it, Neither let the light shine upon it.
DARBY
That day let it be darkness, let not God care for it from above, neither let light shine upon it:
BLB
That day—may it be darkness; let not God seek it above, nor let light shine upon it.
ÅB
Måtte den dag bli til mørke! Måtte Gud i det høye ikke spørre etter den, og intet lys stråle over den!
OTB
La den dagen være mørke;
må Gud ovenfor overse den,
og la intet lys skinne på den.
B1930
Måtte den dag bli til mørke! Måtte Gud i det høie ikke spørre efter den, og intet lys stråle over den!

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Matthew 27:45

    Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.

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  • Amos 5:18

    Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.

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  • Revelation 16:10

    And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,

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  • Deuteronomy 11:12

    A land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.

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  • Joel 2:2

    A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.

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  • Exodus 10:22–23

    And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days:

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  • Acts 27:20

    And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was then taken away.

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