Parallel Verses

International Standard Version

Let darkness and deep gloom reclaim it; let clouds settle down on it; let blackness in mid-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.

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

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 Let that day be dark; let God above not care about it; let no light shine over it. 5 Let darkness and deep gloom reclaim it; let clouds settle down on it; let blackness in mid-day terrify it. 6 Let darkness carry that night away; let it not take its place joyfully among the days of the year; let it not be entered into the calendar.


Cross References

Job 10:21-22

before I go, never to return, leaving for the land of deep darkness and shadow.

Psalm 23:4

Even when I walk through a valley of deep darkness, I will not be afraid because you are with me. Your rod and your staff they comfort me.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to the LORD your God before he brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the mountains at twilight. You hope for light, but he turns it into deep darkness. He changes it into heavy gloom.

Job 24:17

As a group, deep darkness is their morning time; fear that lives in darkness is their friend."

Job 28:3

Mankind limits the darkness as they search the deepest depths for ore in unfathomable darkness.

Job 38:17

Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of the deepest darkness?

Isaiah 9:2

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; for those living in a land of deep darkness, a light has shined upon them.

Jeremiah 2:6

"They didn't ask, "Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through the land of desert and pits, through the land of dryness and deep darkness, a land that people don't pass through, and where no one lives?'

Matthew 4:16

The people living in darkness have seen a great light, and for those living in the land and shadow of death, a light has risen."

Deuteronomy 4:11

"When you approached and stood at the foot of the mountain a mountain that was blazing with fire at its core while the sky was covered with thick, dark clouds

Job 16:16

My face is red from my tears, and dark shadows encircle my eyelids,

Psalm 44:19

Nevertheless, you crushed us in the lair of jackals, and covered us in deep darkness.

Psalm 107:10

Some sat in deepest darkness, shackled with cruel iron,

Psalm 107:14

And he brought them out from darkness and the shadow of death, shattering their chains.

Jeremiah 4:28

Because of this, the land will mourn, and the heavens above will be dark. Because I have spoken and decided, I won't turn back from doing it."

Ezekiel 30:3

For comes now the day comes now the Day of the LORD, the day of clouds! The time of the gentiles is fulfilled!

Ezekiel 34:12

Just as a shepherd looks after his flock during the day time while he is with them, so also I'm going to watch over my sheep, delivering them from every place where they've been scattered during the times of gloom and doom.

Joel 2:2

A day of doom and gloom, a day of clouds and shadows like the dawn spreads out to cover the mountains a people strong and robust. Never has there been anything like it, neither will anything follow to compare with it, even through the lifetime of generation upon generation."

Amos 5:8

Seek the one who fashions the Pleiades and Orion, who turns the deep darkness into morning, who darkens day into night, who calls out to the waters of the sea, pouring them out onto the surface of the earth the LORD is his name.

Amos 8:10

I will turn your festivals into mourning, and all of your songs to dirges. I will cause all of you to put on sackcloth and to shave all of your heads. I will make that time like mourning for an only son, and its conclusion will be like the end of a bitter day."

Luke 1:79

to shine on those who sit in darkness and in death's shadow, and to guide our feet into the way of peace."

Hebrews 12:18

You have not come to something that can be touched, to a blazing fire, to darkness, to gloom,

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