Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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 that day be darkness; Let not God from above seek for it, Neither let the light shine upon it. 5 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. 6 As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon 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
Before I go whence I shall not return, Even to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
Psalm 23:4
Yea, thou I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for thou art with me; Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
Jeremiah 13:16
Give glory to Jehovah your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
Job 24:17
For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness; For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
Job 28:3
Man'setteth an end to darkness, And searcheth out, to the furthest bound, The stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.
Job 38:17
Have the gates of death been revealed unto thee? Or hast thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?
Isaiah 9:2
The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
Jeremiah 2:6
Neither said they, Where is Jehovah that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that 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 dwelt?
Matthew 4:16
The people that sat in darkness Saw a great light, And to them that sat in the region and shadow of death, To them did light spring up.
Deuteronomy 4:11
And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the heart of heaven, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.
Job 16:16
My face is red with weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
Psalm 44:19
That thou hast sore broken us in the place of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death.
Psalm 107:10
Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, Being bound in affliction and iron,
Psalm 107:14
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, And brake their bonds in sunder.
Jeremiah 4:28
For this shall the earth 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.
Ezekiel 30:3
For the day is near, even the day of Jehovah is near; it shall be a day of clouds, a time of the nations.
Ezekiel 34:12
As a shepherd seeketh 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 whither they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
Joel 2:2
a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, as the dawn spread upon the mountains; a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.
Amos 5:8
seek him that maketh the Pleiades and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night; that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth (Jehovah is his name);
Amos 8:10
And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
Luke 1:79
To shine upon them that sit in darkness and the shadow of death; To guide our feet into the way of peace.
Hebrews 12:18
For ye are not come unto a mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,