Parallel Verses
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.
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
Let that day turn to darkness. May God above not care about it. Let no light shine upon it.
5
Let a cloud settle on it;
Let the blackness of the day terrify it.
Names
Cross References
Job 10:21-22
before I go to the place of no return, to the land of darkness and the shadow of death,
Psalm 23:4
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for you are with me. Your rod and your staff they comfort me.
Jeremiah 13:16
Give glory to Jehovah your God before he brings darkness and before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You hope for light. He makes it into deep darkness and turns it into gloom.
Job 24:17
For deep darkness is morning to all of them. They are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.
Job 28:3
Humans bring an end to darkness. He searches the black rock to the limit of the gloom.
Job 38:17
Have the gates of death been shown to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
Isaiah 9:2
The people who walk in darkness (ignorance) (lies) have seen a great light (truth). A light has dawned on those who live in the land of the shadow of death (the grave) (calamity).
Jeremiah 2:6
They did not ask: 'Where is Jehovah who brought us from Egypt? He led us through the desert, through a wasteland and its pits, a land of drought and the shadow of death. No one lives there or travels there.'
Matthew 4:16
the people sitting in darkness saw a great light. Light rose upon those sitting in a region of deathly shadow.
Deuteronomy 4:11
Tell your children how you went close and stood at the foot of the mountain covered with thick clouds of dark smoke and fire blazing up to the sky.
Job 16:16
My face is flushed from weeping. The shadow of death is on my eyelids.
Psalm 44:19
You crushed us in a place for jackals and covered us with the shadow of death.
Psalm 107:10
Those who lived in the dark, in death's shadow were prisoners in misery. They were held in iron chains
Psalm 107:14
He brought them out of the dark, out of death's shadow. He broke apart their chains.
Jeremiah 4:28
The earth will mourn, and the sky will grow black. I have spoken, and I have determined it. I will not change my plans, and I will not turn back!
Ezekiel 30:3
The day is near. The Day of Jehovah is near. It will be a gloomy day, a time of trouble for the nations.
Ezekiel 34:12
As a shepherd cares for his herd in the day when he is among his scattered sheep, so I will care for my sheep and will deliver them from all the places where they were scattered on a cloudy and gloomy day.
Joel 2:2
It is a day of darkness and gloom! It is a day of clouds and thick darkness! The dawn spreads upon the mountains. This great and mighty people have never seen anything like this. Nor will it be like this again even to the years of many generations.
Amos 5:8
seek the creator of the cluster of stars named Pleiades and the star constellation Orion. He turns the shadow of death into morning, and makes the day dark with night. He calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out upon the face of the earth. Jehovah is his name!
Amos 8:10
I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation (dirges). I will bring sackcloth on all loins and baldness on every head. I will make it as the mourning for an only son like the end of a bitter day.
Luke 1:79
The light will shine on them who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death. It will guide our feet into the way of peace.
Hebrews 12:18
You have not come to a mountain that can be touched, to Mount Sinai with its blazing fire, the darkness and the gloom, the storm.