Parallel Verses
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
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.
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 shall be darkness; God shall not search it out from above, and the light shall not shine upon it. 5 Darkness shall pollute it, and the shadow of death; a cloud shall dwell upon it; the obscurations of day shall terrify it 6 That night darkness shall take it; it shall not be joined upon the days of the year; it shall not come into the number of months.
Names
Cross References
Job 10:21-22
Before I shall go and turn back to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
Psalm 23:4
Also if I shall go into the valley of the shadow of death, I shall not be afraid of evil, for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they will comfort me.
Jeremiah 13:16
Ye shall give glory to Jehovah your God, before he shall darken, and before your feet shall strike upon the mountains of darkness, and ye waited for light, and he set it for the shadow of death, he will place for gloom.
Job 24:17
For the morning altogether to them the shadow of death: if it shall be known, the terrors of the shadow of death.
Job 28:3
He set an end to darkness, and he searched out for all completeness: the stone of darkness and the shadow of death.
Job 38:17
Were the gates of death uncovered to thee? and shalt thou see the gates of the shadow of death?
Isaiah 9:2
The people going in darkness saw a great light: they dwelling in the land of the shadow of death, light shone upon them.
Jeremiah 2:6
And they said not, Where is Jehovah bringing us up out of the land of Egypt, causing us to go through the desert into a sterile land and a pit, through a land of drought and the shadow of death, through a land not a man passed through it, and not a man dwelt there?
Matthew 4:16
The people sitting in darkness saw a great light; and to them sitting in the room and shadow of death, light has sprung up to them.
Deuteronomy 4:11
And ye shall come near and shall stand under the mountain; .and the mountain burnt with fire even to the heart of the heavens, darkness, cloud, and gloom.
Job 16:16
My face became red from weeping, and upon my eye-lashes the shadow of death
Psalm 44:19
For thou didst crush us in the place of jackals, and thou wilt cover over us with the shadow of death.
Psalm 107:10
They sitting in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound with affliction and iron.
Psalm 107:14
He will bring them forth from darkness and the shadow of death, and he will burst their bands.
Jeremiah 4:28
For this, shall the earth mourn, and the heavens became dark from above: because I spake, I purposed, I lamented not, and I will not turn back from it
Ezekiel 30:3
For the day is near, the day of Jehovah is near, the day of a cloud; it shall be the time of the nations.
Ezekiel 34:12
According to the seeking of the shepherd of his flock in the day of his being in the midst of his sheep being scattered.; so will I search out my sheep and deliver them from all places where they were scattered there in the day of cloud and darkness.
Joel 2:2
A day of darkness and of thick darkness; a day of cloud and gloom as the morning spread upon the mountains: great and strong people; the like to him was not from forever, and after him there shall not be added even to the years of generation and generation.
Amos 5:8
He made the seven stars and Orion, and he turned the shadow of death to the morning, and he darkened the day to night: calling to the water of the sea, and he will pour them out upon the face of the earth: Jehovah his name:
Amos 8:10
And turned your festivals into mourning, and all your songs to lamentation; and I brought up sackcloth upon all loins, and upon every head, baldness; and I set it as the mourning of an only one, and its last part as a day of bitterness.
Luke 1:79
To shine forth to those in darkness and sitting in the shadow of death, to direct our feet in the way of peace.
Hebrews 12:18
For ye have not come to the mount being handled, and burned with fire, and to duskiness, and to darkness, and to a violent storm,