Job 3:4

World English Bible (2000)

Let that day be darkness. Don't let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 10:22-23 : 22 Moses stretched forth his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days. 23 They didn't see one another, neither did anyone rise from his place for three days; but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
  • Deut 11:12 : 12 a land which Yahweh your God cares for: the eyes of Yahweh your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year.
  • Joel 2:2 : 2 A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, a great and strong people; there has never been the like, neither will there be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.
  • Amos 5:18 : 18 "Woe to you who desire the day of Yahweh! Why do you long for the day of Yahweh? It is darkness, and not light.
  • Matt 27:45 : 45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.
  • Acts 27:20 : 20 When neither sun nor stars shone on us for many days, and no small storm pressed on us, all hope that we would be saved was now taken away.
  • Rev 16:10 : 10 The fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was darkened. They gnawed their tongues because of the pain,

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  • Job 3:5-10
    6 verses
    89%

    5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.

    6 As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months.

    7 Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein.

    8 Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.

    9 Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

    10 because it didn't shut up the doors of my mother's womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.

  • Job 3:3
    83%

    3 "Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, 'There is a boy conceived.'

  • Amos 5:20
    80%

    20 Won't the day of Yahweh be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?

  • Job 18:5-6
    2 verses
    76%

    5 "Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, The spark of his fire shall not shine.

    6 The light shall be dark in his tent. His lamp above him shall be put out.

  • Job 23:17
    76%

    17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

  • Job 10:20-22
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    75%

    20 Aren't my days few? Cease then. Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

    21 before I go where I shall not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

    22 the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.'"

  • Jer 20:14
    75%

    14 Cursed is the day in which I was born: don't let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.

  • Job 17:12-13
    2 verses
    74%

    12 They change the night into day, saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.

    13 If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,

  • Lam 3:2
    74%

    2 He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.

  • Job 34:22
    74%

    22 There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

  • Ps 139:11-12
    2 verses
    73%

    11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; the light around me will be night;"

    12 even the darkness doesn't hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.

  • Job 38:19
    73%

    19 "What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,

  • Job 10:3
    73%

    3 Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

  • Zeph 1:15
    73%

    15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,

  • Job 18:18
    73%

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

  • Job 22:11
    73%

    11 or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.

  • Isa 13:10
    73%

    10 For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going forth, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.

  • Job 3:16
    73%

    16 or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.

  • Job 3:23
    73%

    23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?

  • Job 36:20
    73%

    20 Don't desire the night, when people are cut off in their place.

  • Job 36:32
    72%

    32 He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark.

  • Ps 109:12
    72%

    12 Let there be none to extend kindness to him, neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children.

  • Job 19:8
    72%

    8 He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

  • Zech 14:6
    72%

    6 It will happen in that day, that there will not be light, cold, or frost.

  • Mic 3:6
    72%

    6 "Therefore night is over you, with no vision, and it is dark to you, that you may not divine; and the sun will go down on the prophets, and the day will be black over them.

  • Jer 20:16
    72%

    16 Let that man be as the cities which Yahweh overthrew, and didn't repent: and let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime;

  • Job 29:3
    72%

    3 when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,

  • Job 5:14
    72%

    14 They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.

  • Eccl 6:4
    72%

    4 for it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness.

  • Amos 5:18
    72%

    18 "Woe to you who desire the day of Yahweh! Why do you long for the day of Yahweh? It is darkness, and not light.

  • Job 24:16-17
    2 verses
    72%

    16 In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don't know the light.

    17 For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

  • Amos 8:9
    71%

    9 It will happen in that day," says the Lord Yahweh, "that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.

  • Ezek 32:8
    71%

    8 All the bright lights of the sky will I make dark over you, and set darkness on your land, says the Lord Yahweh.

  • Jer 13:16
    71%

    16 Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.

  • Job 3:20
    71%

    20 "Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,

  • Job 9:34
    71%

    34 Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid;

  • Ps 143:3
    71%

    3 For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

  • Lam 3:6
    71%

    6 He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

  • Job 20:26
    70%

    26 All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left in his tent.