Verse 17

Your life will shine brighter than noonday; its darkness will be like the morning.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 37:6 : 6 He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, and your justice like the noonday.
  • Isa 58:8-9 : 8 Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear. Your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard. 9 Then you will call, and the Lord will answer; you will cry for help, and he will say: 'Here I am.' If you remove the yoke from among you, the pointing finger, and malicious talk. 10 If you offer yourself to the hungry and satisfy the needs of the afflicted, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like noonday.
  • Hos 6:3 : 3 Let us acknowledge the LORD; let us press on to know Him. His coming is as certain as the dawn, and He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.
  • Mic 7:8-9 : 8 Do not rejoice over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will rise. Though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light. 9 Because I have sinned against Him, I will bear the indignation of the LORD until He pleads my case and executes justice for me. He will bring me into the light, and I will see His righteousness.
  • Zech 14:6-7 : 6 On that day, there will be no light; the precious lights will diminish and freeze. 7 It will be a unique day—known only to the Lord—not day nor night, but at evening time there will be light.
  • Luke 2:26-32 : 26 It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord's Messiah. 27 Moved by the Spirit, he went into the temple. When the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him what the Law required, 28 Simeon took him in his arms and praised God, saying: 29 "Now, Lord, you can let your servant depart in peace, according to your word. 30 For my eyes have seen your salvation, 31 which you have prepared in the sight of all nations: 32 a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and the glory of your people Israel."
  • Ps 92:14 : 14 Planted in the house of the LORD, they will flourish in the courts of our God.
  • Ps 112:4 : 4 Light shines in the darkness for the upright; he is gracious, compassionate, and righteous.
  • Prov 4:18 : 18 The path of the righteous is like the morning light, shining brighter and brighter until the full day.
  • 1 Chr 29:10 : 10 David praised the LORD in the presence of the whole assembly, saying, "Blessed are you, LORD, the God of our father Israel, from everlasting to everlasting."
  • Job 42:11-17 : 11 All his brothers, sisters, and former acquaintances came to him and ate with him in his house. They showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the misfortune that the LORD had brought upon him, and each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring. 12 The LORD blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys. 13 He also had seven sons and three daughters. 14 He named the first daughter Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-Happuch. 15 Nowhere in all the land were there found women as beautiful as Job's daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance along with their brothers. 16 After this, Job lived 140 years and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation. 17 And so Job died, old and full of days.