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Job 3:5

Discouragement and depression

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.

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.

7 Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.

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BSB
May darkness and gloom reclaim it, and a cloud settle over it; may the blackness of the day overwhelm it.
KJV
Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
WEB
Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes the day black terrify it.
ASV
Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own; Let a cloud dwell upon it; Let all that maketh black the day terrify it.
DARBY
Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it; let clouds dwell upon it; let darkeners of the day terrify it.
BLB
Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it; may a cloud dwell over it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
ÅB
Gid mørke og dødsskygge må kreve den tilbake, gid skyer må leire seg over den, gid alt som gjør en dag mørk, må skremme den!
OTB
La mørke og dyp skygge kreve den;
la en sky bo over den;
la dagens svarthet skremme den.
B1930
Gid mørke og dødsskygge må kreve den tilbake, gid skyer må leire sig over den, gid alt som gjør en dag mørk, må skremme den!

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Job 10:21–22

    Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

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  • Job 28:3

    He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.

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  • Jeremiah 2:6

    Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?

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  • Psalms 23:4

    Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

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  • Psalms 107:14

    He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.

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  • Jeremiah 4:28

    For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.

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  • Deuteronomy 4:11

    And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.

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  • Isaiah 9:2

    The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

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