“Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night that said, ‘A male is conceived.’
Job 3:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Let that day be darkness! May God above not seek it or light shine on it. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Let that day be darkness; Let not God regard it from above, Neither let the light shine upon it. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Let that day be darkness! May not God above regard it, nor light shine upon it. American Standard Version (1901) Let that day be darkness; Let not God from above seek for it, Neither let the light shine upon it. Common English Bible That day—let it be darkness; may God above ignore it, and light not shine on it. Catholic Public Domain Version May that day be turned into darkness, may God not seek it from above, and may light not illuminate it. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Let that day be turned into darkness: let not God regard it from above: and let not the light shine upon it. |
“Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night that said, ‘A male is conceived.’
Let gloom and deep darkness claim it. Let clouds settle upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness! Like blackness spread upon the mountains, a great and powerful army comes; their like has never been from of old, nor will be again after them in ages to come.
Woe to you who desire the day of the Lord! Why do you want the day of the Lord? It is darkness, not light,
From noon on, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon.
When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and no small tempest raged, all hope of our being saved was at last abandoned.
a land that the Lord your God looks after. The eyes of the Lord your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.
The fifth angel poured his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was plunged into darkness; people gnawed their tongues in agony