Job 3:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

That day--let it be dark; let not God take note of it from on high, and let not the light be shining on it;

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 10:22-23 : 22 And when Moses' hand was stretched out, dark night came over all the land of Egypt for three days; 23 They were not able to see one another, and no one got up from his place for three days: but where the children of Israel were living it was light.
  • Deut 11:12 : 12 A land cared for by the Lord your God: the eyes of the Lord your God are on it at all times from one end of the year to the other.
  • Joel 2:2 : 2 For a day of dark and deep shade is near, a day of cloud and black night: like a black cloud a great and strong people is covering the mountains; there has never been any like them and will not be after them again, from generation to generation.
  • Amos 5:18 : 18 Sorrow to you who are looking for the day of the Lord! what is the day of the Lord to you? it is dark and not light.
  • Matt 27:45 : 45 Now from the sixth hour it was dark over all the land till the ninth hour.
  • Acts 27:20 : 20 And as we had not seen the sun or stars for a long time, and a great storm was on us, all hope of salvation was gone.
  • Rev 16:10 : 10 And the fifth let what was in his vessel come out on the high seat of the beast; and his kingdom was made dark; and they were biting their tongues for pain.

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    89%

    5 Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it.

    6 That night--let the thick dark take it; let it not have joy among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.

    7 As for that night, let it have no fruit; let no voice of joy be sounded in it;

    8 Let it be cursed by those who put a curse on the day; who are ready to make Leviathan awake.

    9 Let its morning stars be dark; let it be looking for light, but may it not have any; let it not see the eyes of the dawn.

    10 Because it did not keep the doors of my mother's body shut, so that trouble might be veiled from my eyes.

  • Job 3:3
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    3 Let destruction take the day of my birth, and the night on which it was said, A man child has come into the world.

  • Amos 5:20
    80%

    20 Will not the day of the Lord be dark and not light? even very dark, with no light shining in it?

  • Job 18:5-6
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    76%

    5 For the light of the sinner is put out, and the flame of his fire is not shining.

    6 The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out.

  • Job 23:17
    76%

    17 For I am overcome by the dark, and by the black night which is covering my face.

  • Job 10:20-22
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    75%

    20 Are not the days of my life small in number? Let your eyes be turned away from me, so that I may have a little pleasure,

    21 Before I go to the place from which I will not come back, to the land where all is dark and black,

    22 A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.

  • Jer 20:14
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    14 A curse on the day of my birth: let there be no blessing on the day when my mother had me.

  • Job 17:12-13
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    74%

    12 They are changing night into day; they say, The light is near the dark.

    13 If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;

  • Lam 3:2
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    2 By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light.

  • Job 34:22
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    22 There is no dark place, and no thick cloud, in which the workers of evil may take cover.

  • Ps 139:11-12
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    11 If I say, Only let me be covered by the dark, and the light about me be night;

    12 Even the dark is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day: for dark and light are the same to you.

  • Job 38:19
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    19 Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark;

  • Job 10:3
    73%

    3 What profit is it to you to be cruel, to give up the work of your hands, looking kindly on the design of evil-doers?

  • Zeph 1:15
    73%

    15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and sorrow, a day of wasting and destruction, a day of dark night and deep shade, a day of cloud and thick dark.

  • Job 18:18
    73%

    18 He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.

  • Job 22:11
    73%

    11 Your light is made dark so that you are unable to see, and you are covered by a mass of waters.

  • Isa 13:10
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    10 For the stars of heaven and its bright armies will not give their light: the sun will be made dark in his journey through the heaven, and the moon will keep back her light.

  • Job 3:16
    73%

    16 Or as a child dead at birth I might never have come into existence; like young children who have not seen the light.

  • Job 3:23
    73%

    23 To a man whose way is veiled, and who is shut in by God?

  • Job 36:20
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    20 ...

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    72%

    32 He takes the light in his hands, sending it against the mark.

  • Ps 109:12
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    12 Let no man have pity on him, or give help to his children when he is dead.

  • Job 19:8
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    8 My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.

  • Zech 14:6
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    6 And in that day there will be no heat or cold or ice;

  • Mic 3:6
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    6 For this cause it will be night for you, without a vision; and it will be dark for you, without knowledge of the future; the sun will go down over the prophets, and the day will be black over them.

  • Jer 20:16
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    16 May that man be like the towns overturned by the Lord without mercy: let a cry for help come to his ears in the morning, and the sound of war in the middle of the day;

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    3 When his light was shining over my head, and when I went through the dark by his light.

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    14 In the daytime it becomes dark for them, and in the sunlight they go feeling about as if it was night.

  • Eccl 6:4
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    4 In wind it came and to the dark it will go, and with the dark will its name be covered.

  • Amos 5:18
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    18 Sorrow to you who are looking for the day of the Lord! what is the day of the Lord to you? it is dark and not light.

  • Job 24:16-17
    2 verses
    72%

    16 In the dark he makes holes in the walls of houses: in the daytime they are shutting themselves up, they have no knowledge of the light.

    17 For the middle of the night is as morning to them, they are not troubled by the fear of the dark.

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    71%

    9 And it will come about in that day, says the Lord God, that I will make the sun go down in the middle of the day, and I will make the earth dark in daylight:

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    8 All the bright lights of heaven I will make dark over you, and put dark night on your land, says the Lord.

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    16 Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.

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    20 Why does he give light to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul;

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    34 Let him take away his rod from me and not send his fear on me:

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    3 The evil man has gone after my soul; my life is crushed down to the earth: he has put me in the dark, like those who have long been dead.

  • Lam 3:6
    71%

    6 He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.

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    70%

    26 All his wealth is stored up for the dark: a fire not made by man sends destruction on him, and on everything in his tent.