World English Bible
Job 3:5
“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.”
Verse in context — Job 3
3
Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, 'There is a boy conceived.
4
Let that day be darkness. Don't let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.
5
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.
6
As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months.
7
Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein.
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