Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it; let clouds dwell upon it; let darkeners of the day terrify it.

New American Standard Bible

“Let darkness and black gloom claim it;
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

May darkness and gloom reclaim it,
and a cloud settle over it.
May an eclipse of the sun terrify it.

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.

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

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
חשׁך 
Choshek 
Usage: 78

and the shadow of death
צלמות 
Tsalmaveth 
Usage: 18

it let a cloud
עננה 
`ananah 
Usage: 1

שׁכן 
Shakan 
Usage: 128

upon it let the blackness
כּמריר 
Kimriyr 
Usage: 1

of the day
יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

בּעת 
Ba`ath 
Usage: 16

References

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Watsons

Context Readings

Job Regrets His Birth

4 That day let it be darkness, let not +God care for it from above, neither let light shine upon it: 5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it; let clouds dwell upon it; let darkeners of the day terrify it. 6 That night let gloom seize upon it; let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.


Cross References

Job 10:21-22

Before I go, and never to return, to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

Psalm 23:4

Yea, though 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 mountains of twilight; and ye shall look for light, but he will turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.

Job 24:17

For the morning is to them all as the shadow of death; for they are familiar with the terrors of the shadow of death.

Job 28:3

Man putteth an end to the darkness, and exploreth to the utmost limit, the stones of darkness and of the shadow of death.

Job 38:17

Have the gates of death been revealed unto thee? and 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 light hath shone.

Jeremiah 2:6

And they said not, Where is Jehovah, that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us in the wilderness, in a land of deserts and of pits, in a land of drought and of the shadow of death, in a land that no one passeth through, and where no man dwelleth?

Matthew 4:16

the people sitting in darkness has seen a great light, and to those sitting in the country and shadow of death, to them has light sprung up.

Deuteronomy 4:11

And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire to the heart of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and obscurity.

Job 16:16

My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

Psalm 44:19

Though thou hast crushed us in the place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

Psalm 107:10

Such as inhabit darkness and the shadow of death, bound in affliction and iron,

Psalm 107:14

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their bands 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 will not repent, neither will I turn back therefrom.

Ezekiel 30:3

For the day is at hand, yea, the day of Jehovah is at hand, a day of clouds; it shall be the time of the nations.

Ezekiel 34:12

As a shepherd tendeth his flock in the day that he is among his scattered sheep, so will I tend my sheep, and 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 gloom, a day of clouds and gross 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, to the years of generations and generations.

Amos 5:8

seek him that made 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 up 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 who were sitting in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.

Hebrews 12:18

For ye have not come to the mount that might be touched and was all on fire, and to obscurity, and darkness, and tempest,

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