A moment in scripture
Job 3:5
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Let 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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The surrounding passage
- Job 3:3
Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
- Job 3:4
Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
- Job 3:6
As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
- Job 3:7
Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.