Job 3:4

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

That day -- let it be darkness, Let not God require it from above, Nor let light shine upon it.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 10:22-23 : 22 And Moses stretcheth out his hand towards the heavens, and there is darkness -- thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days; 23 they have not seen one another, and none hath risen from his place three days; and to all the sons of Israel there hath been light in their dwellings.'
  • Deut 11:12 : 12 a land which Jehovah thy God is searching; continually `are' the eyes of Jehovah thy God upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the latter end of the year.
  • Joel 2:2 : 2 A day of darkness and thick darkness, A day of cloud and thick darkness, As darkness spread on the mountains, A people numerous and mighty, Like it there hath not been from of old, And after it there is not again -- till the years of generation and generation.
  • Amos 5:18 : 18 Ho, ye who are desiring the day of Jehovah, Why `is' this to you -- the day of Jehovah? It is darkness, and not light,
  • Matt 27:45 : 45 And from the sixth hour darkness came over all the land unto the ninth hour,
  • Acts 27:20 : 20 and neither sun nor stars appearing for more days, and not a little tempest lying upon us, thenceforth all hope was taken away of our being saved.
  • Rev 16:10 : 10 And the fifth messenger did pour out his vial upon the throne of the beast, and his kingdom did become darkened, and they were gnawing their tongues from the pain,

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    6 verses
    89%

    5Let darkness and death-shade redeem it, Let a cloud tabernacle upon it, Let them terrify it as the most bitter of days.

    6That night -- let thick darkness take it, Let it not be united to days of the year, Into the number of months let it not come.

    7Lo! that night -- let it be gloomy, Let no singing come into it.

    8Let the cursers of day mark it, Who are ready to wake up Leviathan.

    9Let the stars of its twilight be dark, Let it wait for light, and there is none, And let it not look on the eyelids of the dawn.

    10Because it hath not shut the doors Of the womb that was mine! And hide misery from mine eyes.

  • Job 3:3
    83%

    3Let the day perish in which I am born, And the night that hath said: `A man-child hath been conceived.'

  • Amos 5:20
    80%

    20Is not the day of Jehovah darkness and not light, Even thick darkness that hath no brightness?

  • Job 18:5-6
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    5Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there doth not shine a spark of his fire.

    6The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.

  • Job 23:17
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    17For I have not been cut off before darkness, And before me He covered thick darkness.

  • Job 10:20-22
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    20Are not my days few? Cease then, and put from me, And I brighten up a little,

    21Before I go, and return not, Unto a land of darkness and death-shade,

    22A land of obscurity as thick darkness, Death-shade -- and no order, And the shining `is' as thick darkness.'

  • Jer 20:14
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    14Cursed `is' the day in which I was born, The day that my mother bare me, Let it not be blessed!

  • Job 17:12-13
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    74%

    12Night for day they appoint, Light `is' near because of darkness.

    13If I wait -- Sheol `is' my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch.

  • Lam 3:2
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    2Me He hath led, and causeth to go `in' darkness, and without light.

  • Job 34:22
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    22There is no darkness nor death-shade, For workers of iniquity to be hidden there;

  • Ps 139:11-12
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    11And I say, `Surely darkness bruiseth me, Then night `is' light to me.

    12Also darkness hideth not from Thee, And night as day shineth, as `is' darkness so `is' light.

  • Job 38:19
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    19Where `is' this -- the way light dwelleth? And darkness, where `is' this -- its place?

  • Job 10:3
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    3Is it good for Thee that Thou dost oppress? That Thou despisest the labour of Thy hands, And on the counsel of the wicked hast shone?

  • Zeph 1:15
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    15A day of wrath `is' that day, A day of adversity and distress, A day of waste and desolation, A day of darkness and gloominess, A day of cloud and thick darkness.

  • Job 18:18
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    18They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out.

  • Job 22:11
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    11Or darkness -- thou dost not see, And abundance of waters doth cover thee.

  • Isa 13:10
    73%

    10For the stars of the heavens, and their constellations, Cause not their light to shine, Darkened hath been the sun in its going out, And the moon causeth not its light to come forth.

  • Job 3:16
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    16(Or as a hidden abortion I am not, As infants -- they have not seen light.)

  • Job 3:23
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    23To a man whose way hath been hidden, And whom God doth shut up?

  • Job 36:20
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    20Desire not the night, For the going up of peoples in their stead.

  • Job 36:32
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    32By two palms He hath covered the light, And layeth a charge over it in meeting,

  • Ps 109:12
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    12He hath none to extend kindness, Nor is there one showing favour to his orphans.

  • Job 19:8
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    8My way He hedged up, and I pass not over, And on my paths darkness He placeth.

  • Zech 14:6
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    6And it hath come to pass, in that day, The precious light is not, it is dense darkness,

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    6Therefore a night ye have without vision, And darkness ye have without divination, And gone in hath the sun on the prophets, And black over them hath been the day.

  • Jer 20:16
    72%

    16Then hath that man been as the cities, That Jehovah overthrew, and repented not, And he hath heard a cry at morning, And a shout at time of noon.

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    3In His causing His lamp to shine on my head, By His light I walk `through' darkness.

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    72%

    14By day they meet darkness, And as night -- they grope at noon.

  • Eccl 6:4
    72%

    4For in vanity he came in, and in darkness he goeth, and in darkness his name is covered,

  • Amos 5:18
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    18Ho, ye who are desiring the day of Jehovah, Why `is' this to you -- the day of Jehovah? It is darkness, and not light,

  • Job 24:16-17
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    72%

    16He hath dug in the darkness -- houses; By day they shut themselves up, They have not known light.

    17When together, morning `is' to them death shade, When he discerneth the terrors of death shade.

  • Amos 8:9
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    9And it hath come to pass in that day, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, I have caused the sun to go in at noon, And caused darkness on the land in a day of light,

  • Ezek 32:8
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    8All luminaries of light in the heavens, I make black over thee, And I have given darkness over thy land, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah,

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    16Give ye to Jehovah your God honour, Before He doth cause darkness, And before your feet stumble on dark mountains, And ye have waited for light, And He hath made it for death-shade, And hath appointed `it' for thick darkness.

  • Job 3:20
    71%

    20Why giveth He to the miserable light, and life to the bitter soul?

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    34He doth turn aside from off me his rod, And His terror doth not make me afraid,

  • Ps 143:3
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    3For an enemy hath pursued my soul, He hath bruised to the earth my life, He hath caused me to dwell in dark places, As the dead of old.

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    6In dark places He hath caused me to dwell, As the dead of old.

  • Job 20:26
    70%

    26All darkness is hid for his treasures, Consume him doth a fire not blown, Broken is the remnant in his tent.