Verse List for JOB 3:4

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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Iyyov (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) May that day be dark. ⇔ May God not search for it from above ⇔  and may no light shine on it.

OET-LV The_day (the)_that let _it _be darkness not let_him _care _for _it god (from)_above and_not let _it _shine _forth on/upon/above_him/it daylight.

ULT That day—may it be dark! ⇔  May God not seek it from above, ⇔  and may light not shine upon it.

UST I wish that there would only be darkness on that day so that it would not even be a day. ⇔  I wish that God in heaven would not care about that day ⇔  and so not make the sun shine on it.

BSB & MSB If only that day had turned to darkness! ⇔  May God above disregard it; ⇔  [may no] light shine upon it.

OEB No OEB JOB book available

WEBBE & WMBB Let that day be darkness. ⇔  Don’t let God from above seek for it, ⇔  neither let the light shine on it.

NET That day – let it be darkness; ⇔ let not God on high regard it, ⇔ nor let light shine on it!

LSV That day—let it be darkness,
Do not let God require it from above,
Nor let light shine on it.

FBV Turn that day to darkness. God above should not remember it. Don't let light shine on it.

T4T I wish that the day when I was born would have been covered in darkness. ⇔  I wish that God who is in heaven [MTY] would have forgotten about that day, ⇔  and that the sun would not have shone on it.

LEB • Let that day become[fn] darkness;
• may God not seek it from above,
• nor may daylight shine on it.

BBE That day — let it be dark; let not God take note of it from on high, and let not the light be shining on it;

Moff May God on high ignore it, ⇔  till not a ray illumines it!

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

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

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

YLT That day — let it be darkness, Let not God require it from above, Nor let light shine upon it.

Drby That day — let it be darkness, let not [fn]God care for it from above, neither let light shine upon it:

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

SLT That day shall be darkness; God shall not search it out from above, and the light shall not shine upon it.

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

KJB-1769 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.

KJB-1611 Let that day bee darkenesse, let not God regard it from aboue, neither let the light shine vpon it.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps The same day be turned to darknesse, and not regarded of God from aboue, neither let the light shyne vpon it:
(The same day be turned to darkness, and not regarded of God from above, neither let the light shine upon it:)

Gnva Let that day bee darkenesse, let not God regarde it from aboue, neyther let the light shine vpon it,
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Cvdl The same daye be turned to darcknesse, and not regarded of God from aboue, nether be shyned vpo wt light:
(The same day be turned to darkness, and not regarded of God from above, neither be shined upon with light:)

Wycl Thilke dai be turnede in to derknessis; God seke not it aboue, and be it not in mynde, nethir be it liytned with liyt.
(That day be turned in to darkness; God seek not it above, and be it not in mind, neither be it lightned with light.)

Luth Derselbe Tag müsse finster sein, und GOtt von oben herab müsse nicht nach ihm fragen; kein Glanz müsse über ihn scheinen.
(Derselbe day must dark be, and God from above/overhead down must not after him asks; no/not shine(n) must above him/it seem.)

ClVg Dies ille vertatur in tenebras: non requirat eum Deus desuper, et non illustretur lumine.[fn]
(The_day he/that_one vertatur in/into/on darkness: not/no requires him God from_above, and not/no illustretur the_light.)

UHB הַ⁠יּ֥וֹם הַ⁠ה֗וּא יְֽהִ֫י חֹ֥שֶׁךְ אַֽל־יִדְרְשֵׁ֣⁠הוּ אֱל֣וֹהַּ מִ⁠מָּ֑עַל וְ⁠אַל־תּוֹפַ֖ע עָלָ֣י⁠ו נְהָרָֽה׃ ‡

BrLXX Ἡ νὺξ ἐκείνη εἴη σκότος, καὶ μὴ ἀναζητήσαι αὐτὴν ὁ Κύριος ἄνωθεν, μηδὲ ἔλθοι εἰς αὐτὴν φέγγος·

BrTr Let that night be darkness, and let not the Lord regard it from above, neither let light come upon it.