Job 3:5 Parallel Translations

Let the darkness and long shadows claim it as their own. Let a dark cloud hang over it. Let the gloom terrify it.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

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.

BBE:

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.

DBY:

Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it; let clouds dwell upon it; let darkeners of the day terrify it.

ERV:

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.

JPS:

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.

WBS:

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

WEB:

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.

YLT:

Let darkness and death-shade redeem it, Let a cloud tabernacle upon it, Let them terrify it as the most bitter of days.

Job 3:5 Cross References

XREF:

Jeremiah 13:16 Give glory to the LORD your God, Before He brings darkness And before your feet stumble On the dusky mountains, And while you are hoping for light He makes it into deep darkness, And turns it into gloom. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

3:5 Let darkness and the {e} shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
(e) That is, most obscure darkness, which makes them afraid of death that they are in it.

WES:

3:5 Death - A black and dark shadow like that of the place of the dead, which is a land of darkness. Slain - Take away its beauty and glory. Terrify - That is, men in it. Let it be always observed as a frightful and dismal day.

MHC:

3:1-10 For seven days Job's friends sat by him in silence, without offering consolidation: at the same time Satan assaulted his mind to shake his confidence, and to fill him with hard thoughts of God. The permission seems to have extended to this, as well as to torturing the body. Job was an especial type of Christ, whose inward sufferings, both in the garden and on the cross, were the most dreadful; and arose in a great degree from the assaults of Satan in that hour of darkness. These inward trials show the reason of the change that took place in Job's conduct, from entire submission to the will of God, to the impatience which appears here, and in other parts of the book. The believer, who knows that a few drops of this bitter cup are more dreadful than the sharpest outward afflictions, while he is favoured with a sweet sense of the love and presence of God, will not be surprised to find that Job proved a man of like passions with others; but will rejoice that Satan was disappointed, and could not prove him a hypocrite; for though he cursed the day of his birth, he did not curse his God. Job doubtless was afterwards ashamed of these wishes, and we may suppose what must be his judgment of them now he is in everlasting happiness.

CONC:

Bitter Black Blackness Claim Cloud Clouds Covered Dark Darkeners Darkness Death Death-shade Deep Dwell Fear Gloom Makes Maketh Overwhelm Redeem Settle Shades Shadow Stain Tabernacle Terrify Themselves

Black Blackness Claim Cloud Clouds Covered Dark Darkness Death Death-Shade Deep Dwell Fear Gloom Light Makes Maketh Night Once Overwhelm Redeem Settle Shades Shadow Stain Terrify Themselves

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