What Job was saying is that he felt rejected and forsaken - he felt impure. He felt God had rejected Him.
He was not speaking of the literal color of his skin.
He was talking about how everyone rejected him as impure, etc.
I know drstevej knows this, but he doesn't point it out. Mormon 5:15 Later it says the white delightsome people would become dark, filthy and loathesome even beyond that of the Lamanites because of unbelief and idolatry.
Again, not a reference to skin color, but of purity.
It is talking about purity, and not skin color.
See 2 Nephi 30:5 And the gospel of Jesus Christ shall be declared among them; wherefore, they shall be restored unto the knowledge of their fathers, and also to the knowledge of Jesus Christ, which was had among their fathers.
6 And then shall they rejoice; for they shall know that it is a blessing unto them from the hand of God; and
their scales of darkness shall begin to fall from their eyes; and many generations shall not pass away among them, save
they shall be a pure and a delightsome people.
The Bible actually has the exact same themes.
Job 30:28 I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
Job 30:29 I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
Job 30:30
My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
He is saying God has loathed him, made Him sad, cursed him, and turned him black to be a hiss and a byword.
The virgin building of the temple.
Song 1:1 The song of songs, which is Solomon's.
Song 1:2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine.
Song 1:3 Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.
Song 1:4 Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee.
Song 1:5
I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
Song 1:6 Look not upon me, because
I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.
The woman or church is black with sin but is still loved.
Is reference to being white racist? Is this skin color?
Dan 11:35 And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to
make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.
Lam 4:6 For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.
Lam 4:7 Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were
whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire:
Lam 4:8
Their[daughter] visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
Jer 8:19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not יהוה in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?
Jer 8:20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
Jer 8:21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt;
I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
Is this talking about skin color, despair or sin? The church is black compared to the righteousness of the sun. Malachi 4:2
drstevej has tried to teach that the BOM is racist. If so, the Bible is.
I'm gonna also need an apology for LDS deity turning folks black as a curse.
I do not apologize to people for failing to properly exegete or understand scripture.