Job 3:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 10:21-22 : 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.
  • Ps 23:4 : 4 Yes, though I go through the valley of deep shade, I will have no fear of evil; for you are with me, your rod and your support are my comfort.
  • Job 28:3 : 3 Man puts an end to the dark, searching out to the farthest limit the stones of the deep places of the dark.
  • Isa 9:2 : 2 The people who went in the dark have seen a great light, and for those who were living in the land of the deepest night, the light is shining.
  • Jer 13:16 : 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.
  • Jer 2:6 : 6 And they never said, Where is the Lord, who took us up out of the land of Egypt; who was our guide through the waste of sand, through an unplanted land full of deep holes, through a dry land of deep shade, which no one went through and where no man was living?
  • Job 38:17 : 17 Have the doors of death been open to you, or have the door-keepers of the dark ever seen you?
  • Job 24:17 : 17 For the middle of the night is as morning to them, they are not troubled by the fear of the dark.
  • Matt 4:16 : 16 The people who were in the dark saw a great light, and to those in the land of the shade of death did the dawn come up.
  • Luke 1:79 : 79 To give light to those in dark places, and in the shade of death, so that our feet may be guided into the way of peace.
  • Heb 12:18 : 18 You have not come to a mountain which may be touched, and is burning with fire, and to a black cloud, and a dark smoke, and a violent wind,
  • Deut 4:11 : 11 And you came near, waiting at the foot of the mountain; and flames of fire went up from the mountain to the heart of heaven, with dark clouds, and all was black as night.
  • Job 16:16 : 16 My face is red with weeping, and my eyes are becoming dark;
  • Ps 44:19 : 19 Though you have let us be crushed in the place of jackals, though we are covered with darkest shade.
  • Ps 107:10 : 10 Those who were in the dark, in the black night, in chains of sorrow and iron;
  • Ps 107:14 : 14 He took them out of the dark and the black night, and all their chains were broken.
  • Jer 4:28 : 28 The earth will be weeping for this, and the heavens on high will be black: because I have said it, and I will not go back from it; it is my purpose, and it will not be changed.
  • Ezek 30:3 : 3 For the day is near, the day of the Lord is near, a day of cloud; it will be the time of the nations.
  • Ezek 34:12 : 12 As the keeper goes looking for his flock when he is among his wandering sheep, so I will go looking for my sheep, and will get them safely out of all the places where they have been sent wandering in the day of clouds and black night.
  • 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 5:8 : 8 Go for help to him who makes Orion and the Pleiades, by whom the deep dark is turned into morning, who makes the day black with night; whose voice goes out to the waters of the sea, sending them out over the face of the earth: the Lord is his name;
  • Amos 8:10 : 10 Your feasts will be turned into sorrow and all your melody into songs of grief; everyone will be clothed with haircloth, and the hair of every head will be cut; I will make the weeping like that for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.

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  • Job 3:6-9
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    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.

  • Job 3:3-4
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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.

    4 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;

  • Job 10:21-22
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    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.

  • Amos 5:20
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    20 Will not the day of the Lord be dark and not light? even very dark, with no light shining in it?

  • Job 24:16-17
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    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.

  • Job 18:5-6
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    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 22:11
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    11 Your light is made dark so that you are unable to see, and you are covered by a mass of waters.

  • Job 17:12-13
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    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;

  • Zeph 1:15
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    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.

  • Ps 143:3
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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.

  • Job 5:14
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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.

  • 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.

  • Lam 3:6
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    6 He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.

  • Jer 13:16
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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.

  • Isa 5:30
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    30 And his voice will be loud over him in that day like the sounding of the sea: and if a man's eyes are turned to the earth, it is all dark and full of trouble; and the light is made dark by thick clouds.

  • Job 20:26
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    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.

  • Job 23:17
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    17 For I am overcome by the dark, and by the black night which is covering my face.

  • 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.

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

  • Job 28:3
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    3 Man puts an end to the dark, searching out to the farthest limit the stones of the deep places of the dark.

  • 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.

  • Isa 50:3
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    3 By me the heavens are clothed with black, and I make haircloth their robe.

  • Ezek 32:8
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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.

  • Ps 35:6
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    6 Let their way be dark and full of danger; let them be troubled by the angel of the Lord.

  • Job 12:22
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    22 Uncovering deep things out of the dark, and making the deep shade bright;

  • Joel 3:15
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    15 Get your plough-blades hammered into swords, and your vine-knives into spears: let the feeble say, I am strong.

  • Ps 69:23
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    23 Let their eyes be blind so that they may not see; let their bodies for ever be shaking.

  • Ps 18:11
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    11 He made the dark his secret place; his tent round him was the dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

  • Isa 8:22
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    22 And he will be looking down on the earth, and there will be trouble and dark clouds, black night where there is no seeing.

  • Ps 55:15
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    15 Let the hand of death come on them suddenly, and let them go down living into the underworld; because evil is in their houses and in their hearts.

  • 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 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.

  • 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.

  • 2 Sam 22:12
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    12 And he made the dark his tent round him, a mass of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

  • 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.

  • Eccl 8:13
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    13 But it will not be well for the evil-doer; he will not make his days long like a shade, because he has no fear before God.

  • Job 38:13
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    13 So that it might take a grip of the skirts of the earth, shaking all the evil-doers out of it?

  • Job 37:19
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    19 Make clear to me what we are to say to him; we are unable to put our cause before him, because of the dark.

  • Amos 8:9
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    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:

  • Job 9:34
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    34 Let him take away his rod from me and not send his fear on me: