Job 3:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let blackness of the day terrify it.

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  • Job 10:21-22 : 21 Before I go to the place from which I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; 22 A land of darkness, like darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
  • Ps 23:4 : 4 Yes, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
  • Job 28:3 : 3 He sets an end to darkness, and searches out all perfection: the stones of darkness and the shadow of death.
  • Isa 9:2 : 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 has the light shined.
  • Jer 13:16 : 16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.
  • Jer 2:6 : 6 Neither did they say, Where is the LORD who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who 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 one passed through, and where no one lived?
  • Job 38:17 : 17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the doors of the shadow of death?
  • Job 24:17 : 17 For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death; if one knows them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
  • Matt 4:16 : 16 The people which sat in darkness saw a great light, and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light has sprung up.
  • Luke 1:79 : 79 To give light to those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
  • Heb 12:18 : 18 For you have not come to the mountain that may be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness and darkness and tempest,
  • Deut 4:11 : 11 And you came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.
  • Job 16:16 : 16 My face is flushed with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
  • Ps 44:19 : 19 Though You have severely broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
  • Ps 107:10 : 10 Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;
  • Ps 107:14 : 14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their bands apart.
  • Jer 4:28 : 28 For this the earth shall mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not relent, nor will I turn back from it.
  • Ezek 30:3 : 3 For the day is near, the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it will be the time of the nations.
  • Ezek 34:12 : 12 As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
  • Joel 2:2 : 2 A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, as the morning spreads upon the mountains: a great and strong people; there has never been anything like it, neither shall there be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.
  • Amos 5:8 : 8 Seek him that makes the seven stars and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; that calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:
  • Amos 8:10 : 10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth upon all waists, and baldness upon every head; I will make it like mourning for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 3:6-9
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    6As for that night, let darkness seize it; let it not be included among the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

    7Behold, let that night be barren, let no joyful shout come in it.

    8Let those curse it who curse the day, who are ready to stir up their lamentation.

    9Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it look for light, but have none; nor let it see the breaking of dawn:

  • Job 3:3-4
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    3Let the day perish on which I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a male child conceived.

    4Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, nor let the light shine upon it.

  • Job 10:21-22
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    21Before I go to the place from which I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

    22A land of darkness, like darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

  • Amos 5:20
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    20Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, with no brightness in it?

  • Job 24:16-17
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    16In the dark they break into houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime; they do not know the light.

    17For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death; if one knows them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

  • Job 18:5-6
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    5Indeed, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

    6The light shall be dark in his dwelling, and his lamp shall be put out with him.

  • Job 22:11
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    11Or darkness, that you cannot see; and an abundance of waters covers you.

  • Job 17:12-13
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    12They change the night into day; the light is near because of darkness.

    13If I wait, the grave is my house; I have made my bed in the darkness.

  • Zeph 1:15
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    15That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of devastation and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,

  • Ps 143:3
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    3For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me dwell in darkness, like those long dead.

  • Job 5:14
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    14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at midday as if it were night.

  • Job 34:22
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    22There is no darkness nor shadow of death where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

  • Lam 3:6
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    6He has set me in dark places, like those long dead.

  • Jer 13:16
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    16Give glory to the LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.

  • Isa 5:30
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    30And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one looks to the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened by the clouds of the heavens.

  • Job 20:26
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    26Total darkness is reserved for his treasures; a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with the one who remains in his tent.

  • Job 23:17
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    17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, nor has he covered the darkness from my face.

  • Ps 139:11-12
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    11If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.

    12Yes, the darkness does not hide from You, but the night shines as the day; the darkness and the light are both alike to You.

  • Lam 3:2
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    2He has led me and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

  • Job 18:18
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    18He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

  • Job 28:3
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    3He sets an end to darkness, and searches out all perfection: the stones of darkness and the shadow of death.

  • Mic 3:6
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    6Therefore night shall be unto you, that you shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that you shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.

  • Isa 50:3
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    3I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.

  • Ezek 32:8
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    8All the bright lights of the sky will I make dark over you, and set darkness upon your land, says the Lord GOD.

  • Ps 35:6
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    6Let their way be dark and slippery, and let the angel of the LORD persecute them.

  • Job 12:22
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    22He reveals deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.

  • Joel 3:15
    73%

    15The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.

  • Ps 69:23
    73%

    23Let their eyes be darkened so that they do not see, and make their loins continually to shake.

  • Ps 18:11
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    11He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion around him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

  • Isa 8:22
    73%

    22And they shall look to the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and they shall be driven into darkness.

  • Ps 55:15
    73%

    15Let death seize upon them, and let them go down alive into hell, for wickedness is in their dwellings and among them.

  • Job 38:19
    73%

    19Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And as for darkness, where is its place,

  • Job 19:8
    72%

    8He has fenced up my way so that I cannot pass, and He has set darkness in my paths.

  • Isa 13:10
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    10For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light: the sun will be darkened in its rising, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.

  • 2 Sam 22:12
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    12And he made darkness canopies around him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.

  • Amos 5:18
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    18Woe to 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.

  • Eccl 8:13
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    13But it will not be well with the wicked, nor will he prolong his days, which are like a shadow, because he does not fear before God.

  • Job 38:13
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    13That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?

  • Job 37:19
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    19Teach us what we shall say to him, for we cannot arrange our speech because of darkness.

  • Amos 8:9
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    9And it shall come to pass in that day, declares the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in broad daylight:

  • Job 9:34
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    34Let Him take His rod away from me, and let not His fear terrify me: