Job 3:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 10:21-22
Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; …
Psalms 23:4
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Jeremiah 13:16
Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
Isaiah 9:2
The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
Job 28:3
He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Blessing Colors Despair Despondency Discouragement Enquiring of God Importunity

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-10)

Long was Job’s heart hot within him; and, while he was musing, the fire burned, and the more for being stifled and suppressed. At length he spoke with his tongue, but not such a good word as David spoke after a long pause: Lord, make me to know my end, Ps. 39:3, 4. Seven days the prophet Ezekiel sat down astonished with the captives, and then (probably on the sabbath day) the word of the Lord came…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5. Let ... the shadow of death--(“deepest darkness,” Is 9:2). stain it--This is a later sense of the verb [Gesenius]; better the old and more poetic idea, “Let darkness (the ancient night of chaotic gloom) resume its rights over light (Ge 1:2), and claim that day as its own.” a cloud--collectively, a gathered mass of dark clouds. the blackness of the day terrify it--literally, “the obscurations”;…