Job 17:12
They change the night into day: The light, [say they], is near unto the darkness.
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Referenced Verses
- Deut 28:67 : 67 In the morning thou shalt say, Would it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would it were morning! for the fear of thy heart which thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
- Job 7:3-4 : 3 So am I made to possess months of misery, And wearisome nights are appointed to me. 4 When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? And I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
- Job 7:13-14 : 13 When I say, My bed shall comfort me, My couch shall ease my complaint; 14 Then thou scarest me with dreams, And terrifiest me through visions:
- Job 24:14-16 : 14 The murderer riseth with the light; He killeth the poor and needy; And in the night he is as a thief. 15 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, Saying, No eye shall see me: And he disguiseth his face. 16 In the dark they dig through houses: They shut themselves up in the day-time; They know not the light.
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14They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.
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16In the dark they dig through houses: They shut themselves up in the day-time; They know not the light.
17For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness; For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
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11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, Even the thoughts of my heart.
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13If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;
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11If I say, Surely the darkness shall overwhelm me, And the light about me shall be night;
12Even the darkness hideth not from thee, But the night shineth as the day: The darkness and the light are both alike [to thee] .
- Job 10:21-222 verses77%
21Before I go whence I shall not return, [Even] to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
22The land dark as midnight, [The land] of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as midnight.
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4Let that day be darkness; Let not God from above seek for it, Neither let the light shine upon it.
5Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own; Let a cloud dwell upon it; Let all that maketh black the day terrify it.
6As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it: Let it not rejoice among the days of the year; Let it not come into the number of the months.
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20Shall not the day of Jehovah be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
- Job 24:13-142 verses75%
13These are of them that rebel against the light; They know not the ways thereof, Nor abide in the paths thereof.
14The murderer riseth with the light; He killeth the poor and needy; And in the night he is as a thief.
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5Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, And the spark of his fire shall not shine.
6The light shall be dark in his tent, And his lamp above him shall be put out.
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8Let them curse it that curse the day, Who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
9Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark: Let it look for light, but have none; Neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning:
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17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, Neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.
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22He uncovereth deep things out of darkness, And bringeth out to light the shadow of death.
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2before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;
3in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows shall be darkened,
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19The way of the wicked is as darkness: They know not at what they stumble.
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16Give glory to Jehovah your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
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9In the twilight, in the evening of the day, In the middle of the night and in the darkness.
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19Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And as for darkness, where is the place thereof,
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14At eventide, behold, terror; [and] before the morning they are not. This is the portion of them that despoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
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2He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
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22and they shall look unto the earth, and behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and into thick darkness [they shall be] driven away.
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12The night is far spent, and the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.
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25They grope in the dark without light; And he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.
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16The day is thine, the night also is thine: Thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
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20Thou makest darkness, and it is night, Wherein all the beasts of the forest creep forth.
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6And it shall come to pass in that day, that there shall not be light; the bright ones shall withdraw themselves:
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30And they shall roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold, darkness [and] distress; and the light is darkened in the clouds thereof.
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6Therefore it shall be night unto you, that ye shall have no vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be black over them.
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8He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.
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8All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord Jehovah.
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6He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
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7Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow.
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3When his lamp shined upon my head, And by his light I walked through darkness;
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9And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord Jehovah, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.
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28For thou wilt light my lamp: Jehovah my God will lighten my darkness.
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10For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light; the sun shall be darkened in its going forth, and the moon shall not cause its light to shine.
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15The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
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20Betwixt morning and evening they are destroyed: They perish for ever without any regarding it.
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35Jesus therefore said unto them, Yet a little while is the light among you. Walk while ye have the light, that darkness overtake you not: and he that walketh in the darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.
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4When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? And I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
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10But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him.