Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
Let a cloud settle on it;
Let the blackness of the day terrify it.
King James Version
Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
Holman Bible
and a cloud settle over it.
May an eclipse of the sun
International Standard Version
Let darkness and deep gloom reclaim it; let clouds settle down on it; let blackness in mid-day terrify it.
A Conservative Version
Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell upon it. Let blackness come upon it.
American Standard Version
Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own; Let a cloud dwell upon it; Let all that maketh black the day terrify it.
Amplified
“Let darkness and gloom claim it for their own;
Let a cloud settle upon it;
Let all that blackens the day terrify it (the day that I was born).
Bible in Basic English
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.
Darby Translation
Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it; let clouds dwell upon it; let darkeners of the day terrify it.
Julia Smith Translation
Darkness shall pollute it, and the shadow of death; a cloud shall dwell upon it; the obscurations of day shall terrify it
King James 2000
Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Let darkness and deep shadow claim it; let clouds settle on it; let them terrify it [with the] blackness of day.
Modern King James verseion
Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it. Let a cloud dwell upon it; Let the blackness of the day terrify it.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
but let it be stained with darkness, and the shadow of death. Let the dim cloud fall upon it, and let it be lapped in with sorrow.
NET Bible
Let darkness and the deepest shadow claim it; let a cloud settle on it; let whatever blackens the day terrify it!
New Heart English Bible
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.
The Emphasized Bible
Let darkness and death-shade buy it back, May there settle down upon it a cloud, Let a day's dark eclipse cause it terror:
Webster
Let darkness and the shades of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
World English Bible
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
Let darkness and death-shade redeem it, Let a cloud tabernacle upon it, Let them terrify it as the most bitter of days.
Interlinear
Ga'al
Shakan
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 3:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job Regrets His Birth
4
Let not God above care for it,
Nor light shine on it.
Let a cloud settle on it;
Let the blackness of the day terrify it.
Let it not rejoice among the days of the year;
Let it not come into the number of the months.
Names
Cross References
Job 10:21-22
Psalm 23:4
I
Your
Jeremiah 13:16
Before He brings
And before your
On the dusky mountains,
And while you are hoping for light
He makes it into
And turns it into gloom.
Job 24:17
For he is familiar with the
Job 28:3
And
The rock in gloom and deep shadow.
Job 38:17
Or have you seen the gates of
Isaiah 9:2
Will see a great light;
Those who live in a dark land,
The light will shine on them.
Jeremiah 2:6
Who
Who
Through a land of deserts and of pits,
Through a land of drought and of
Through a land that no one crossed
And where no man dwelt?’
Matthew 4:16
And those who were sitting in the land and shadow of death,
Upon them a Light dawned.”
Deuteronomy 4:11
You came near and stood at the foot of the mountain,
Job 16:16
Psalm 44:19
And covered us with
Psalm 107:10
Psalm 107:14
And
Jeremiah 4:28
And the
Because I have
And I will not
Ezekiel 30:3
Even
It will be a day of
A time of doom for the nations.
Ezekiel 34:12
Joel 2:2
A day of clouds and thick darkness.
As the dawn is spread over the mountains,
So there is a
There has
Nor will there be again after it
To the years of many generations.
Amos 5:8
And
Who
And pours them out on the surface of the earth,
The
Amos 8:10
And all your songs into
And I will bring
And baldness on every head.
And I will make it
And the end of it will be like a bitter day.
Luke 1:79
To guide our feet into the
Hebrews 12:18