Job 3:5

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Let darkness and the deepest shadow claim it; let a cloud settle on it; let whatever blackens the day terrify it!

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  • Job 10:21-22 : 21 before I depart, never to return, to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow, 22 to the land of utter darkness, like the deepest darkness, and the deepest shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”
  • Ps 23:4 : 4 Even when I must walk through the darkest valley, I fear no danger, for you are with me; your rod and your staff reassure me.
  • Job 28:3 : 3 Man puts an end to the darkness; he searches the farthest recesses for the ore in the deepest darkness.
  • Isa 9:2 : 2 (9:1) The people walking in darkness see a bright light; light shines on those who live in a land of deep darkness.
  • Jer 13:16 : 16 Show the LORD your God the respect that is due him. Do it before he brings the darkness of disaster. Do it before you stumble into distress like a traveler on the mountains at twilight. Do it before he turns the light of deliverance you hope for into the darkness and gloom of exile.
  • Jer 2:6 : 6 They did not ask:‘Where is the LORD who delivered us out of Egypt, who brought us through the wilderness, through a land of valleys and gorges, through a land of desert and deep darkness, through a land in which no one travels, and where no one lives?’
  • Job 38:17 : 17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of deepest darkness?
  • Job 24:17 : 17 For all of them, the morning is to them like deep darkness; they are friends with the terrors of darkness.
  • Matt 4:16 : 16 the people who sit in darkness have seen a great light, and on those who sit in the region and shadow of death a light has dawned.”
  • Luke 1:79 : 79 to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.”
  • Heb 12:18 : 18 For you have not come to something that can be touched, to a burning fire and darkness and gloom and a whirlwind
  • Deut 4:11 : 11 You approached and stood at the foot of the mountain, a mountain ablaze to the sky above it and yet dark with a thick cloud.
  • Job 16:16 : 16 my face is reddened because of weeping, and on my eyelids there is a deep darkness,
  • Ps 44:19 : 19 Yet you have battered us, leaving us a heap of ruins overrun by wild dogs; you have covered us with darkness.
  • Ps 107:10 : 10 They sat in utter darkness, bound in painful iron chains,
  • Ps 107:14 : 14 He brought them out of the utter darkness, and tore off their shackles.
  • Jer 4:28 : 28 Because of this the land will mourn and the sky above will grow black. For I have made my purpose known and I will not relent or turn back from carrying it out.”
  • Ezek 30:3 : 3 For the day is near, the day of the LORD is near; it will be a day of storm clouds, it will be a time of judgment for the nations.
  • Ezek 34:12 : 12 As a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his scattered sheep, so I will seek out my flock. I will rescue them from all the places where they have been scattered on a cloudy, dark day.
  • Joel 2:2 : 2 It will be a day of dreadful darkness, a day of foreboding storm clouds, like blackness spread over the mountains. It is a huge and powerful army– there has never been anything like it ever before, and there will not be anything like it for many generations to come!
  • Amos 5:8 : 8 (But there is one who made the constellations Pleiades and Orion; he can turn the darkness into morning and daylight into night. He summons the water of the seas and pours it out on the earth’s surface. The LORD is his name!
  • Amos 8:10 : 10 I will turn your festivals into funerals, and all your songs into funeral dirges. I will make everyone wear funeral clothes and cause every head to be shaved bald. I will make you mourn as if you had lost your only son; when it ends it will indeed have been a bitter day.

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  • Job 3:6-9
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    6That night– let darkness seize it; let it not be included among the days of the year; let it not enter among the number of the months!

    7Indeed, let that night be barren; let no shout of joy penetrate it!

    8Let those who curse the day curse it– those who are prepared to rouse Leviathan.

    9Let its morning stars be darkened; let it wait for daylight but find none, nor let it see the first rays of dawn,

  • Job 3:3-4
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    3“Let the day on which I was born perish, and the night that said,‘A man has been conceived!’

    4That day– let it be darkness; let not God on high regard it, nor let light shine on it!

  • Job 10:21-22
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    21before I depart, never to return, to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow,

    22to the land of utter darkness, like the deepest darkness, and the deepest shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”

  • Amos 5:20
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    20Don’t you realize the LORD’s day of judgment will bring darkness, not light– gloomy blackness, not bright light?

  • Job 24:16-17
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    16In the dark the robber breaks into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.

    17For all of them, the morning is to them like deep darkness; they are friends with the terrors of darkness.

  • Job 18:5-6
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    5“Yes, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; his flame of fire does not shine.

    6The light in his tent grows dark; his lamp above him is extinguished.

  • Job 22:11
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    11why it is so dark you cannot see, and why a flood of water covers you.

  • Job 17:12-13
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    12These men change night into day; they say,‘The light is near in the face of darkness.’

    13If I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

  • Zeph 1:15
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    15That day will be a day of God’s anger, a day of distress and hardship, a day of devastation and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and dark skies,

  • Ps 143:3
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    3Certainly my enemies chase me. They smash me into the ground. They force me to live in dark regions, like those who have been dead for ages.

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

  • Job 34:22
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    22There is no darkness, and no deep darkness, where evildoers can hide themselves.

  • Lam 3:6
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    6He has made me reside in deepest darkness like those who died long ago.

  • Jer 13:16
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    16Show the LORD your God the respect that is due him. Do it before he brings the darkness of disaster. Do it before you stumble into distress like a traveler on the mountains at twilight. Do it before he turns the light of deliverance you hope for into the darkness and gloom of exile.

  • Isa 5:30
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    30At that time they will growl over their prey, it will sound like sea waves crashing against rocks. One will look out over the land and see the darkness of disaster, clouds will turn the light into darkness.

  • Job 20:26
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    26Total darkness waits to receive his treasures; a fire which has not been kindled will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.

  • Job 23:17
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    17Yet I have not been silent because of the darkness, because of the thick darkness that covered my face.

  • Ps 139:11-12
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    11If I were to say,“Certainly the darkness will cover me, and the light will turn to night all around me,”

    12even the darkness is not too dark for you to see, and the night is as bright as day; darkness and light are the same to you.

  • Lam 3:2
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    2He drove me into captivity and made me walk in darkness and not light.

  • Job 18:18
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    18He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.

  • Job 28:3
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    3Man puts an end to the darkness; he searches the farthest recesses for the ore in the deepest darkness.

  • Mic 3:6
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    6Therefore night will fall, and you will receive no visions; it will grow dark, and you will no longer be able to read the omens. The sun will set on these prophets, and the daylight will turn to darkness over their heads.

  • Isa 50:3
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    3I can clothe the sky in darkness; I can cover it with sackcloth.”

  • Ezek 32:8
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    8I will darken all the lights in the sky over you, and I will darken your land, declares the Sovereign LORD.

  • Ps 35:6
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    6May their path be dark and slippery, as the LORD’s angel chases them!

  • Job 12:22
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    22He reveals the deep things of darkness, and brings deep shadows into the light.

  • Joel 3:15
    73%

    15The sun and moon are darkened; the stars withhold their brightness.

  • Ps 69:23
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    23May their eyes be blinded! Make them shake violently!

  • Ps 18:11
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    11He shrouded himself in darkness, in thick rain clouds.

  • Isa 8:22
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    22When one looks out over the land, he sees distress and darkness, gloom and anxiety, darkness and people forced from the land.

  • Ps 55:15
    73%

    15May death destroy them! May they go down alive into Sheol! For evil is in their dwelling place and in their midst.

  • Job 38:19
    73%

    19“In what direction does light reside, and darkness, where is its place,

  • Job 19:8
    72%

    8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness over my paths.

  • Isa 13:10
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    10Indeed the stars in the sky and their constellations no longer give out their light; the sun is darkened as soon as it rises, and the moon does not shine.

  • 2 Sam 22:12
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    12He shrouded himself in darkness, in thick rain clouds.

  • Amos 5:18
    72%

    18The Lord Demands Justice Woe to those who wish for the day of the LORD! Why do you want the LORD’s day of judgment to come? It will bring darkness, not light.

  • Eccl 8:13
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    13But it will not go well with the wicked, nor will they prolong their days like a shadow, because they do not stand in fear before God.

  • Job 38:13
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    13that it might seize the corners of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?

  • Job 37:19
    72%

    19Tell us what we should say to him. We cannot prepare a case because of the darkness.

  • Amos 8:9
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    9In that day,” says the Sovereign LORD,“I will make the sun set at noon, and make the earth dark in the middle of the day.

  • Job 9:34
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    34who would take his rod away from me so that his terror would not make me afraid.