Job 3:5

Job chapter 3 · verse 5 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

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.

King James Version · 1611

Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

American Standard Version · 1901

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.

v.4Let that day be darkness; Let not God from above seek for it, Neither let the light shine upon it.

v.5This passage

v.6As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it: Let it not rejoice among the days of the year; Let it not come into the number of the months.

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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 hath the light shined.
Matthew 4:16
The people that sat in darkness Saw a great light, And to them that sat in the region and shadow of death, To them did light spring up.
Job 24:17
For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness; For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
Ezekiel 30:3
For the day is near, even the day of Jehovah is near; it shall be a day of clouds, a time of the nations.
Jeremiah 13:16
Give glory to Jehovah your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
Luke 1:79
To shine upon them that sit in darkness and the shadow of death; To guide our feet into the way of peace.