Job 3:4 BSB — MannaFest

Job 3:4

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

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Let that day be darkness; Let not God from above seek for it, Neither let the light shine upon it.

KJV

Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.

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Commentary

2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Let that day be darkness - The meaning is exactly the same with our expression, “Let it be blotted out of the calendar.” However distinguished it may have been, as the birthday of a man once celebrated for his possessions, liberality, and piety, let it no longer be thus noted; as he who was thus celebrated is now the sport of adversity, the most impoverished, most afflicted, and most wretched of human beings.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Darkness - I wish the sun had never risen upon that day, or, which is all one, that it had never been; and whensoever that day returns, I wish it may be black, and gloomy, and uncomfortable. Regard - From heaven, by causing the light of the sun which is in heaven to shine upon it.

Voices on this verse

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
הַיּ֥וֹם	hai.Yom	the day	H3117 →
הַה֗וּא	ha.Hu'	<the> that	H1931 →
יְֽהִ֫י	ye.Hi	let it be	H1961 →
חֹ֥שֶׁךְ	Cho.shekh	darkness	H2822 →
אַֽל־	'al-	may not	H408 →
יִדְרְשֵׁ֣הוּ	yid.re.She.hu	he care for it	H1875 →
אֱל֣וֹהַּ	'e.Lo.ah	God	H433 →
מִמָּ֑עַל	mi.Ma.'al	<from> above	H4605 →
וְאַל־	ve.'al-	and may not	H408 →
תּוֹפַ֖ע	to.Fa'	it shine forth	H3313 →
עָלָ֣יו	'a.Lav	on it	H5921 →
נְהָרָֽה׃	ne.ha.Rah	daylight	H5105 →

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The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
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.
leads to
- Jeremiah 24:6
  I will keep My eyes on them for good and will return them to this land. I will build them up and not tear them down; I will plant them and not uproot them.
- Psalms 33:18
  Surely the eyes of the LORD are on those who fear Him, on those whose hope is in His loving devotion
- 1 Kings 9:3
  And the LORD said to him: “I have heard your prayer and petition before Me. I have consecrated this temple you have built by putting My Name there forever; My eyes and My heart…
- Psalms 34:15
  The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and His ears are inclined to their cry.
- Ezra 5:5
  But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, so that they were not stopped until a report was sent to Darius and written instructions about this matter were returned.
Through
Matthew 27:45
From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.
leads to
- Amos 8:9
  And in that day, declares the Lord GOD, I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the daytime.
Through
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.
leads to
- Joel 1:15
  Alas for the day! For the Day of the LORD is near, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.
- Joel 2:1–2
  Blow the ram’s horn in Zion; sound the alarm on My holy mountain! Let all who dwell in the land tremble, for the Day of the LORD is coming; indeed, it is near—

About Job

Job Hears of His Misfortunes — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Job

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Job