Parallel Verses

NET Bible

Let darkness and the deepest shadow claim it; let a cloud settle on it; let whatever blackens 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.

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.

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 on high regard it, nor let light shine on it! 5 Let darkness and the deepest shadow claim it; let a cloud settle on it; let whatever blackens the day terrify it! 6 That night -- let darkness seize it; let it not be included among the days of the year; let it not enter among the number of the months!

Cross References

Job 10:21-22

before I depart, never to return, to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow,

Psalm 23:4

Even when I must walk through the darkest valley, I fear no danger, for you are with me; your rod and your staff reassure me.

Jeremiah 13:16

Show the Lord your God the respect that is due him. Do it before he brings the darkness of disaster. Do it before you stumble into distress like a traveler on the mountains at twilight. Do it before he turns the light of deliverance you hope for into the darkness and gloom of exile.

Job 24:17

For all of them, the morning is to them like deep darkness; they are friends with the terrors of darkness.

Job 28:3

Man puts an end to the darkness; he searches the farthest recesses for the ore in the deepest darkness.

Job 38:17

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

Isaiah 9:2

The people walking in darkness see a bright light; light shines on those who live in a land of deep darkness.

Jeremiah 2:6

They did not ask: 'Where is the Lord who delivered us out of Egypt, who brought us through the wilderness, through a land of desert sands and rift valleys, through a land of drought and deep darkness, through a land in which no one travels, and where no one lives?'

Matthew 4:16

the people who sit in darkness have seen a great light, and on those who sit in the region and shadow of death a light has dawned."

Deuteronomy 4:11

You approached and stood at the foot of the mountain, a mountain ablaze to the sky above it and yet dark with a thick cloud.

Job 16:16

my face is reddened because of weeping, and on my eyelids there is a deep darkness,

Psalm 44:19

Yet you have battered us, leaving us a heap of ruins overrun by wild dogs; you have covered us with darkness.

Psalm 107:10

They sat in utter darkness, bound in painful iron chains,

Psalm 107:14

He brought them out of the utter darkness, and tore off their shackles.

Jeremiah 4:28

Because of this the land will mourn and the sky above will grow black. For I have made my purpose known and I will not relent or turn back from carrying it out."

Ezekiel 30:3

For the day is near, the day of the Lord is near; it will be a day of storm clouds, it will be a time of judgment for the nations.

Ezekiel 34:12

As a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his scattered sheep, so I will seek out my flock. I will rescue them from all the places where they have been scattered on a cloudy, dark day.

Joel 2:2

It will be a day of dreadful darkness, a day of foreboding storm clouds, like blackness spread over the mountains. It is a huge and powerful army -- there has never been anything like it ever before, and there will not be anything like it for many generations to come!

Amos 5:8

(But there is one who made the constellations Pleiades and Orion; he can turn the darkness into morning and daylight into night. He summons the water of the seas and pours it out on the earth's surface. The Lord is his name!

Amos 8:10

I will turn your festivals into funerals, and all your songs into funeral dirges. I will make everyone wear funeral clothes and cause every head to be shaved bald. I will make you mourn as if you had lost your only son; when it ends it will indeed have been a bitter day.

Luke 1:79

to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace."

Hebrews 12:18

For you have not come to something that can be touched, to a burning fire and darkness and gloom and a whirlwind

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