But let darkness and the [a]shadow of death stain it: let the cloud remain upon it, and let them make it fearful as a bitter day.

Let darkness possess that night, let it not be joined unto the days of the year, nor let it come into the count of the months.

Yea, desolate be that night, and let no joy be in it.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 3:5 That is, most obscure darkness, which maketh them afraid of death that are in it.

May gloom and utter darkness(A) claim it once more;
    may a cloud settle over it;
    may blackness overwhelm it.
That night—may thick darkness(B) seize it;
    may it not be included among the days of the year
    nor be entered in any of the months.
May that night be barren;
    may no shout of joy(C) be heard in it.

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