Job 3:5 — King James Version← Study notes

“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 — Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Job 3:59 words

HebrewMeaning

יִגְאָלֻ֡/הוּyigəʾāluhw

let them reclaim itverbH1350

in any wise · at all · deliver · (do ···

חֹ֣שֶׁךְḥōšekə

darknessnounH2822

night · obscurity

וְ֭/צַלְמָוֶתwəṣaləmāwet

and deep darknessconjH6757

תִּשְׁכָּןtišəkān

let it settle downverbH7931

continue · (cause to · make to) dwell · have habitation ···

עָלָ֣י/וʿālāyw

over itpronH5921

according to · after · against · among ···

עֲנָנָ֑הʿănānāh

cloudnounH6053

יְ֝בַעֲתֻ֗/הוּyəbaʿătuhw

let them terrify itverbH1204

be afraid · terrify · trouble

כִּֽמְרִ֥ירֵיkiməriyrēy

the darkness ofnounH3650

יֽוֹםywōm

daynounH3117

always · chronicals · continually · daily ···

ℹWords are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

Church Fathers on Job 3:5

Let that day be turned into darkness. This day shines as it were in the hearts of men, when the persuasions of his wickedness are thought to be for our good, and what they are within is never seen; but when his wickedness is seen as it is, the day of false promises is as it were dimmed by a kind of darkness spread before the eyes of our judgment, in this respect, that such as he is in intrinsic worth, such he is perceived to be in his beguilement, and so ‘the day becomes…
Gregory the Great · 6th century · Morals on Job, Book 4 §6

Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain

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