Job 3:4

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Job 3:2–6 · Berean Standard Bible

2 And this is what he said:

3 “May the day of my birth perish, and the night it was said, ‘A boy is conceived.’

4 If only that day had turned to darkness! May God above disregard it; may no light shine upon it.

5 May darkness and gloom reclaim it, and a cloud settle over it; may the blackness of the day overwhelm it.

6 If only darkness had taken that night away! May it not appear among the days of the year; may it never be entered in any of the months.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Exodus 10:22

So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and total darkness covered all the land of Egypt for three days.

Exodus 10:23

No one could see anyone else, and for three days no one left his place. Yet all the Israelites had light in their dwellings.

Joel 2:2

a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like the dawn overspreading the mountains a great and strong army appears, such as never was of old, nor will ever be in ages to come.

Amos 5:18

Woe to you who long for the Day of the LORD! What will the Day of the LORD be for you? It will be darkness and not light.

Matthew 27:45

From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.

Acts 27:20

When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and the great storm continued to batter us, we abandoned all hope of being saved.

Revelation 16:10

And the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was plunged into darkness, and men began to gnaw their tongues in anguish

Deuteronomy 11:12

It is a land for which the LORD your God cares; the eyes of the LORD your God are always on it, from the beginning to the end of the year.