Black

A dark colour often associated with impending judgment or with evil.

Black as descriptive of colour

Matthew 5:36 See also Exodus 10:15 the plague of locusts; Leviticus 11:13–14 parallel Deuteronomy 14:12–13 unclean food; Leviticus 13:31; Deuteronomy 4:11; 1 Kings 18:45; Job 28:3, Job 30:28, Job 30:30; Song of Solomon 5:11; Lamentations 4:7–8ZEC Lamentations 6:2, Zechariah 6:6; Revelation 6:5 Revelation 6:12

Nor should you swear by your head, for you cannot make a single hair white or black.

Black as the opposite of light

Job 3:5 Job cursing the day of his birth. See also Isaiah 5:30, Isaiah 45:7; Amos 5:8

May darkness and gloom reclaim it, and a cloud settle over it; may the blackness of the day overwhelm it.

Black in the setting of impending judgment

Joel 2:2 See also Amos 8:9; Zephaniah 1:15

a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like the dawn overspreading the mountains a great and strong army appears, such as never was of old, nor will ever be in ages to come.

Black as a symbol of evil

Job 34:22 See also John 3:19; 2 Peter 2:17; Jude 1:13

There is no darkness or deep shadow where the workers of iniquity can hide.