KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Job 3:5–7
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Job 3:5
5Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
5Let darkenes and the shadowe of death ‖staine it, let a cloud dwell vpon it, ‖let the blacknes of the day terrifie it.
- Or, challenge it.
- Or, let them terrifie it, as those who haue a bitter day.
Job 3:6
6As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
6As for that night, let darkenesse seaze vpon it, ‖let it not be ioyned vnto the dayes of the yeere, let it not come into the number of the moneths.
- Or, let it not reioyce among the dayes.
Job 3:7
7Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
7Loe, let that night be solitarie, let no ioyfull voice come therein.
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 3:5
To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Absence of light; also obscurity, ignorance, distress, or moral evil by figure.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Shade from light; a dark outline; or a figure of protection, transience, or a coming reality, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
To blot; to soil; to spot with guilt or infamy; to tarnish; to bring reproach on.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A visible mass of vapour in the sky; figuratively, a covering or multitude.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The state of being black or dark; deep darkness.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The period of light between morning and evening; a complete daily cycle; or a specified time, age, or season, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To frighten, alarm, or fill with terror.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
Job 3:6
To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Absence of light; also obscurity, ignorance, distress, or moral evil by figure.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To take hold or possession of forcibly or suddenly.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604
Added; united; set or fastened together; associated; confederated.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
A period of twelve months; a stated annual period.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
A count or quantity; also to count, reckon, appoint, or include among a group.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
DEFINED WORDS
Job 3:7
To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Living alone; not having company.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Full of joy; very glad; exulting.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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From verse 5
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Open the full verse study21Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
22A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
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Open the full verse study3He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.
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Open the full verse study6Neither 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?
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Open the full verse study4Yea, 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.
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Open the full verse study11And 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.
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Open the full verse study12As 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.
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Open the full verse study2The 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.
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Open the full verse study16Give 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.
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Open the full verse study28For 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.
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Open the full verse study10Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;
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Open the full verse study14He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.
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Open the full verse study16My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
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Open the full verse study17For 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.
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Open the full verse study17Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?
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Open the full verse study79To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
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Open the full verse study16The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.
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Open the full verse study8Seek 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: The Lord is his name:
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Open the full verse study10And 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 of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
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Open the full verse study3For the day is near, even the day of the Lord is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen.
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Open the full verse study18For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
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Open the full verse study2A 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.
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Open the full verse study19Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
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Open the full verse study20It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
21But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
22And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
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Open the full verse study8The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
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Open the full verse study34Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.
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Open the full verse study22And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;
23And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.
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