Job 3:5
Job · Old Testament · Chapter 3
“Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.”Job 3:5
What Does Job 3:5 Mean?
Job 3:5 is found in the book of Job, chapter 3, verse 5 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 20 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.
Cross-References (20)
These passages are connected to Job 3:5 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.
Psalms 23:4“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.”Job 12:22“He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.”Matthew 4:16“The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.”Job 10:21“Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;”Job 28:3“He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.”Psalms 44:19“Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.”Psalms 107:14“He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.”Jeremiah 2:6“Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that 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 man passed through, and where no man dwelt?”Deuteronomy 4:11“And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.”Job 38:17“Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?”Psalms 107:10“Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;”Isaiah 9:2“The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.”Jeremiah 4:28“For 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 from it.”Jeremiah 13:16“Give glory to the LORD 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.”Ezekiel 34:12“As 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.”Job 16:16“My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;”Job 24:17“For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.”Job 34:22“There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.”Luke 1:79“To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.”Judges 18:25“And the children of Dan said unto him, Let not thy voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows run upon thee, and thou lose thy life, with the lives of thy household.”
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