Job 3:5

New English Translation

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

Cross References

Job 16:16

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

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 3:4

That day – let it be darkness; let not God on high regard it, nor let light shine on it!

Job 3:6

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!

Job 34:22

There is no darkness, and no deep darkness, where evildoers can hide themselves.

Job 38:17

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

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.

Psalm 44:19

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

Isaiah 9:2

(9:1) The people walking in darkness see a bright light; light shines on those who live in a land of deep darkness.

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.

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?’

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.

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.”

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.”

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.

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