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Job 3:5 KJV (With Strong’s)

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

or, challenge.

or, let them terrify it, as those who have a bitter day,

Amos 8:10• ¹⁰And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day. (Amos 8:10)

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the shadow.

Job 10:21‑22• ²¹Before I go, and return not,{HR}To a land of darkness and death-shade,
²²A land of gloom, like pitch-darkness itself,{HR}Death-shade, without order,{HR}And the shining like pitch-darkness itself. (Job 10:21‑22)

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Job 16:16• ¹⁶My face is red with weeping,{HR}And on mine eyelids [is] death shade, (Job 16:16)

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Job 24:17• ¹⁷For morning is to them altogether death-shade,{HR}When he discerneth the terrors of the death-shade. (Job 24:17)

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Job 28:3• ³He [man] putteth an end to darkness,{HR}And to the end searcheth he all,{HR}The stone of darkness and death-shade. (Job 28:3)

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Job 38:17• ¹⁷Have the gates of death been disclosed to thee?{HR}And seest thou the gates of the shadow of death? (Job 38:17)

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Psa. 23:4• ⁴Yea when I shall walk through the valley of the shadow of death,{HR}I will fear no evil, for thou [art] with me;{HR}Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. (Psa. 23:4)

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Psa. 44:19• ¹⁹But thou hast broken us to pieces in the place of large serpents,{HR}And hast covered us over with the shadow of death. (Psa. 44:19)

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Psa. 107:10,14• ¹⁰Dwellers in darkness and death-shade,{HR}Bound in affliction and iron,
¹⁴He bringeth them out of darkness and death-shade,{HR}And their bonds he rendeth. (Psa. 107:10,14)

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Isa. 9:2• ²The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them the light hath shone. (Isa. 9:2)

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Jer. 2:6• ⁶And they said not, Where is Jehovah, that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us in the wilderness, in a land of deserts and of pits, in a land of drought and of the shadow of death, in a land that no one passeth through, and where no man dwelleth? (Jer. 2:6)

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Jer. 13:16• ¹⁶Give glory to Jehovah 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. (Jer. 13:16)

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Amos 5:8• ⁸Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night; that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: Jehovah is his name: (Amos 5:8)

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Matt. 4:16• ¹⁶-- the people sitting in darkness has seen a great light, and to those sitting in [the] country and shadow of death, to them has light sprung up. (Matt. 4:16)

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Luke 1:79• ⁷⁹to shine upon them who were sitting in darkness and in [the] shadow of death, to guide our feet into [the] way of peace. (Luke 1:79)

stain it.

or, challenge it.

let a cloud.

Deut. 4:11• ¹¹Ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire in the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness. (Deut. 4:11)

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Ezek. 30:3• ³For the day is near, even the day of Jehovah is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen. (Ezek. 30:3)

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Ezek. 34:12• ¹²As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day. (Ezek. 34:12)

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Joel 2:2• ²a day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains; a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations. (Joel 2:2)

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Heb. 12:18• ¹⁸For ye have not approached to a palpable thing and all aglow with fire, and to obscurity and gloom and tempest, (Heb. 12:18)

let the blackness.

or, let them terrify it, as those whohave a bitter day.

Jer. 4:28• ²⁸For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back therefrom. (Jer. 4:28)

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J. N. Darby Translation

Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it; let clouds dwell upon it; let darkeners of the day terrify it.

W. Kelly Translation

Let darkness and death-shade reclaim it;{HR}Let clouds tabernacle on it;{HR}Let darkenings of the day affright it.