Job 3:4
Good News Translation
Turn that day into darkness, God. Never again remember that day; never again let light shine on it.

New Revised Standard Version
Let that day be darkness! May God above not seek it, or light shine on it.

Contemporary English Version
Forget about that day, cover it with darkness,

New American Bible
May that day be darkness: may God above not care for it, may light not shine upon it!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let that day be turned into darkness, let not God regard it from above, and let not the light shine upon it.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Let that day be turned into darkness, let not God regard it from above, and let not the light shine upon it.

darkness.

Exodus 10:22,23 And Moses stretched forth his hand towards heaven: and there came horrible darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days. . . .

Joel 2:2 A day of darkness, and of gloominess, a day of clouds and whirlwinds: a numerous and strong people as the morning spread upon the mountains: the like to it hath not been from the beginning, nor shall be after it, even to the years of generation and generation.

Amos 5:18 Woe to them that desire the day of the Lord: to what end is it for you? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light.

Matthew 27:45 Now from the sixth hour, there was darkness over the whole earth, until the ninth hour.

Acts 27:20 And when neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and no small storms lay on us, all hope of our being saved was now taken away.

Revelation 16:10 And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast. And his kingdom became dark: and they gnawed their tongues for pain.

God regard.

Deuteronomy 11:12 And the Lord thy God doth always visit it, and his eyes are on it from the beginning of the year unto the end thereof.

Context
Job Laments His Birth
3Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said: A man child is conceived. 4Let that day be turned into darkness, let not God regard it from above, and let not the light shine upon it.5Let darkness, and the shadow of death, cover it, let a mist overspread it, and let it be wrapped up in bitterness.…
Cross References
Job 3:3
Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said: A man child is conceived.

Job 3:5
Let darkness, and the shadow of death, cover it, let a mist overspread it, and let it be wrapped up in bitterness.

Job 3:3
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