Job 19:8

American Standard Version (1901)

He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 3:23 : 23 [ Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, And whom God hath hedged in?
  • Lam 3:7 : 7 He hath walled me about, that I cannot go forth; he hath made my chain heavy.
  • Lam 3:9 : 9 He hath walled up my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked.
  • Hos 2:6 : 6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she shall not find her paths.
  • John 8:12 : 12 Again therefore Jesus spake unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in the darkness, but shall have the light of life.
  • Job 30:26 : 26 When I looked for good, then evil came; And when I waited for light, there came darkness.
  • Ps 88:8 : 8 Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me; Thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
  • Prov 4:19 : 19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: They know not at what they stumble.
  • Isa 50:10 : 10 Who is among you that feareth Jehovah, that obeyeth the voice of his servant? he that walketh in darkness, and hath no light, let him trust in the name of Jehovah, and rely upon his God.
  • Jer 13:16 : 16 Give 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.
  • Jer 23:12 : 12 Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery places in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith Jehovah.
  • Josh 24:7 : 7 And when they cried out unto Jehovah, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness many days.

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  • Lam 3:5-9
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    5He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

    6He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

    7He hath walled me about, that I cannot go forth; he hath made my chain heavy.

    8Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shutteth out my prayer.

    9He hath walled up my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked.

  • Job 19:9-13
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    9He hath stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head.

    10He hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone; And my hope hath he plucked up like a tree.

    11He hath also kindled his wrath against me, And he counteth me unto him as [one of] his adversaries.

    12His troops come on together, And cast up their way against me, And encamp round about my tent.

    13He hath put my brethren far from me, And mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me.

  • Lam 3:2-3
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    2He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.

    3Surely against me he turneth his hand again and again all the day.

  • Lam 3:11
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    11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.

  • Job 19:6-7
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    6Know now that God hath subverted me [in my cause], And hath compassed me with his net.

    7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice.

  • Job 23:17
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    17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, Neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

  • Job 33:10-11
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    78%

    10Behold, he findeth occasions against me, He counteth me for his enemy:

    11He putteth my feet in the stocks, He marketh all my paths.

  • Job 3:23
    76%

    23[ Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, And whom God hath hedged in?

  • Job 38:19
    76%

    19Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And as for darkness, where is the place thereof,

  • Job 29:3
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    3When his lamp shined upon my head, And by his light I walked through darkness;

  • Job 38:10
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    10And marked out for it my bound, And set bars and doors,

  • Job 30:19
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    19He hath cast me into the mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.

  • Job 23:8-9
    2 verses
    75%

    8Behold, I go forward, but he is not [there] ; And backward, but I cannot perceive him;

    9On the left hand, when he doth work, but I cannot behold him; He hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him.

  • Job 30:13
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    13They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, [Even] men that have no helper.

  • Lam 1:13
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    13From on high hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them; He hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: He hath made me desolate and faint all the day.

  • Ps 88:8
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    8Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me; Thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

  • Ps 139:11
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    11If I say, Surely the darkness shall overwhelm me, And the light about me shall be night;

  • Job 18:6-7
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    6The light shall be dark in his tent, And his lamp above him shall be put out.

    7The steps of his strength shall be straitened, And his own counsel shall cast him down.

  • Ps 143:3
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    3For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; He hath smitten my life down to the ground: He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

  • Job 9:17-18
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    17For he breaketh me with a tempest, And multiplieth my wounds without cause.

    18He will not suffer me to take my breath, But filleth me with bitterness.

  • Ps 142:3
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    3When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, Thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walk Have they hidden a snare for me.

  • Prov 4:19
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    19The way of the wicked is as darkness: They know not at what they stumble.

  • Job 22:11
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    11Or darkness, so that thou canst not see, And abundance of waters cover thee.

  • Job 17:12-13
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    73%

    12They change the night into day: The light, [say they], is near unto the darkness.

    13If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;

  • Isa 59:9
    73%

    9Therefore is justice far from us, neither doth righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.

  • Job 10:21-22
    2 verses
    73%

    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.

  • Ps 18:28
    73%

    28For thou wilt light my lamp: Jehovah my God will lighten my darkness.

  • Job 9:11
    73%

    11Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: He passeth on also, but I perceive him not.

  • Job 22:14
    73%

    14Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he seeth not; And he walketh on the vault of heaven.

  • Job 3:9
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    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:

  • Ps 18:11
    72%

    11He made darkness his hiding-place, his pavilion round about him, Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

  • Job 3:5
    72%

    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.

  • Job 18:18
    72%

    18He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.

  • Job 31:4
    72%

    4Doth not he see my ways, And number all my steps?