Job 3:5

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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  • Job 10:21-22 : 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.'"
  • Ps 23:4 : 4 Even 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 Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.
  • Isa 9:2 : 2 The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. Those who lived in the land of the shadow of death, on them the light has shined.
  • Jer 13:16 : 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.
  • Jer 2:6 : 6 Neither did they say, 'Where is Yahweh 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 none passed through, and where no man lived?'
  • Job 38:17 : 17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
  • Job 24:17 : 17 For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
  • Matt 4:16 : 16 the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, to them light has dawned."
  • Luke 1:79 : 79 to shine on 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 a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,
  • Deut 4:11 : 11 You came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.
  • Job 16:16 : 16 My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids.
  • Ps 44:19 : 19 Though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.
  • Ps 107:10 : 10 Some sat 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 bonds in sunder.
  • Jer 4:28 : 28 For this the earth will mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it."
  • Ezek 30:3 : 3 For the day is near, even the day of Yahweh is near; it shall be a day of clouds, a 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 abroad, so will I seek out my sheep; and I 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 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 5:8 : 8 seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,
  • Amos 8:10 : 10 I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, and baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and its end like a bitter day.

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  • Job 3:6-9
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    6As 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.

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

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

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

  • Job 3:3-4
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    3"Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, 'There is a boy conceived.'

    4Let that day be darkness. Don't let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.

  • Job 10:21-22
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    21before I go where I shall not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

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

  • Amos 5:20
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    20Won't the day of Yahweh be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?

  • Job 24:16-17
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    16In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don't know the light.

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

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

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

  • Job 22:11
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    11or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.

  • Job 17:12-13
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    12They change the night into day, saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.

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

  • Zeph 1:15
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    15That 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,

  • Ps 143:3
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    3For 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.

  • Job 5:14
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    14They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.

  • Job 34:22
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    22There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

  • Lam 3:6
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    6He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

  • Jer 13:16
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    16Give 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.

  • Isa 5:30
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    30They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.

  • Job 20:26
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    26All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left in his tent.

  • Job 23:17
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    17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

  • Ps 139:11-12
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    11If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; the light around me will be night;"

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

  • Lam 3:2
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    2He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in 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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    3Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.

  • Mic 3:6
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    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.

  • 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 on your land, says the Lord Yahweh.

  • Ps 35:6
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    6Let their way be dark and slippery, Yahweh's angel pursuing them.

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

  • Joel 3:15
    73%

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

  • Ps 69:23
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    23Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can't see. Let their backs be continually bent.

  • Ps 18:11
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    11He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

  • Isa 8:22
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    22and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.

  • Ps 55:15
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    15Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.

  • Job 38:19
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    19"What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,

  • Job 19:8
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    8He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

  • Isa 13:10
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    10For 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.

  • 2 Sam 22:12
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    12He made darkness pavilions around himself: gathering of waters, and thick clouds of the skies.

  • Amos 5:18
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    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.

  • Eccl 8:13
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    13But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow; because he doesn't fear God.

  • Job 38:13
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    13that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?

  • Job 37:19
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    19Teach us what we shall tell him, for we can't make our case by reason of darkness.

  • Amos 8:9
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    9It 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.

  • Job 9:34
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    34Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid;