Parallel Verses
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.
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).
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 That day--let it be dark; let not God take note of it from on high, and let not the light be shining on it; 5 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. 6 That night--let the thick dark take it; let it not have joy 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 to the place from which I will not come back, to the land where all is dark and black,
Jeremiah 13:16
Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.
Job 24:17
For the middle of the night is as morning to them, they are not troubled by the fear of the dark.
Job 28:3
Man puts an end to the dark, searching out to the farthest limit the stones of the deep places of the dark.
Job 38:17
Have the doors of death been open to you, or have the door-keepers of the dark ever seen you?
Isaiah 9:2
The people who went in the dark have seen a great light, and for those who were living in the land of the deepest night, the light is shining.
Jeremiah 2:6
And they never said, Where is the Lord, who took us up out of the land of Egypt; who was our guide through the waste of sand, through an unplanted land full of deep holes, through a dry land of deep shade, which no one went through and where no man was living?
Matthew 4:16
The people who were in the dark saw a great light, and to those in the land of the shade of death did the dawn come up.
Deuteronomy 4:11
And you came near, waiting at the foot of the mountain; and flames of fire went up from the mountain to the heart of heaven, with dark clouds, and all was black as night.
Job 16:16
My face is red with weeping, and my eyes are becoming dark;
Psalm 44:19
Though you have let us be crushed in the place of jackals, though we are covered with darkest shade.
Psalm 107:10
Those who were in the dark, in the black night, in chains of sorrow and iron;
Psalm 107:14
He took them out of the dark and the black night, and all their chains were broken.
Jeremiah 4:28
The earth will be weeping for this, and the heavens on high will be black: because I have said it, and I will not go back from it; it is my purpose, and it will not be changed.
Ezekiel 30:3
For the day is near, the day of the Lord is near, a day of cloud; it will be the time of the nations.
Ezekiel 34:12
As the keeper goes looking for his flock when he is among his wandering sheep, so I will go looking for my sheep, and will get them safely out of all the places where they have been sent wandering in the day of clouds and black night.
Joel 2:2
For a day of dark and deep shade is near, a day of cloud and black night: like a black cloud a great and strong people is covering the mountains; there has never been any like them and will not be after them again, from generation to generation.
Amos 5:8
Go for help to him who makes Orion and the Pleiades, by whom the deep dark is turned into morning, who makes the day black with night; whose voice goes out to the waters of the sea, sending them out over the face of the earth: the Lord is his name;
Amos 8:10
Your feasts will be turned into sorrow and all your melody into songs of grief; everyone will be clothed with haircloth, and the hair of every head will be cut; I will make the weeping like that for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.
Luke 1:79
To give light to those in dark places, and in the shade of death, so that our feet may be guided into the way of peace.
Hebrews 12:18
You have not come to a mountain which may be touched, and is burning with fire, and to a black cloud, and a dark smoke, and a violent wind,