Job 3:5

Job piles up images of darkness and gloom to reclaim the day of his birth for death. He wants it utterly extinguished.

Cross-references · 22

• Job 28:3Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.
• Job 10:21–22before I go where I shall not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
• Jer 2:6They didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that no one passed through, and where no man lived?’
• Ps 23:4Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
• Ezek 34:12As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered abroad, so will I seek out my sheep; and I will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
• Ps 107:14He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke away their chains.
• Ps 107:10Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,
• Isa 9:2The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. Those who lived in the land of the shadow of death, on them the light has shined.
• Jer 4:28For this the earth will mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it.”
• Deut 4:11You came near and stood under the mountain. The mountain burned with fire to the heart of the sky, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.
• Jer 13:16Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.
• Job 16:16My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids.
• Job 24:17For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
• Matt 4:16the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, to them light has dawned.”
• Job 38:17Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
• Luke 1:79to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace.”
• Ezek 30:3For the day is near, even the day of Yahweh is near; it shall be a day of clouds, a time of the nations.
• Heb 12:18For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,
• Amos 5:8seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,
• Joel 2:2A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, a great and strong people; there has never been the like, neither will there be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.
• Amos 8:10I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, and baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and its end like a bitter day.
• Ps 44:19Though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

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