Job 3:5

New American Bible - revised edition

May darkness and gloom claim it, clouds settle upon it, blackness of day affright it!

Cross References

Job 16:16

My face is inflamed with weeping, darkness covers my eyes,

Job 24:17

Indeed, for all of them morning is deep darkness; then they recognize the terrors of deep darkness.

Job 28:3

He sets a boundary for the darkness; the farthest confines he explores.

Job 3:4

May that day be darkness: may God above not care for it, may light not shine upon it!

Job 3:6

May obscurity seize that night; may it not be counted among the days of the year, nor enter into the number of the months!

Job 34:22

There is no darkness so dense that evildoers can hide in it.

Job 38:17

Have the gates of death been shown to you, or have you seen the gates of darkness?

Psalm 107:10

Some lived in darkness and gloom, imprisoned in misery and chains.

Psalm 107:14

He brought them forth from darkness and the shadow of death and broke their chains asunder.

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 comfort me.

Psalm 44:19

Our hearts have not turned back, nor have our steps strayed from your path.

Isaiah 9:2

You have brought them abundant joy and great rejoicing; They rejoice before you as people rejoice at harvest, as they exult when dividing the spoils.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to the Lord, your God, before he brings darkness; Before your feet stumble on mountains at twilight; Before the light you look for turns to darkness, changes into black clouds.

Jeremiah 2:6

They did not ask, “Where is the Lord who brought us up from the land of Egypt, Who led us through the wilderness, through a land of wastes and ravines, A land of drought and darkness, a land which no one crosses, where no one dwells?”

Jeremiah 4:28

Because of this the earth shall mourn, the heavens above shall darken; I have spoken, I will not change my mind, I have decided, I will not turn back.

Ezekiel 30:3

Yes, a day approaches, a day of the Lord approaches: A day of dark cloud, a time appointed for the nations.

Ezekiel 34:12

As a shepherd examines his flock while he himself is among his scattered sheep, so will I examine my sheep. I will deliver them from every place where they were scattered on the day of dark clouds.

Joel 2:2

a day of darkness and gloom, a day of thick clouds! Like dawn spreading over the mountains, a vast and mighty army! Nothing like it has ever happened in ages past, nor will the future hold anything like it, even to the most distant generations.

Amos 5:8

The one who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn, and darkens day into night; Who summons the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth;

Amos 8:10

I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into dirges. I will cover the loins of all with sackcloth and make every head bald. I will make it like the time of mourning for an only child, and its outcome like a day of bitter weeping.

Matthew 4:16

the people who sit in darkness have seen a great light, on those dwelling in a land overshadowed by death light has arisen.”

Luke 1:79

to shine on those who sit in darkness and death’s shadow, to guide our feet into the path of peace.”

Deuteronomy 4:11

You came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, while the mountain blazed to the heart of the heavens with fire and was enveloped in a dense black cloud.

Hebrews 12:18

You have not approached that which could be touched and a blazing fire and gloomy darkness and storm