Job 23:17

American Standard Version (1901)

Because I was not cut off before the darkness, Neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 19:8 : 8 He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.
  • Job 22:11 : 11 Or darkness, so that thou canst not see, And abundance of waters cover thee.
  • Isa 57:1 : 1 The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil [to come] .
  • 2 Kgs 22:20 : 20 Therefore, behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again.
  • Job 6:9 : 9 Even that it would please God to crush me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
  • Job 15:22 : 22 He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, And he is waited for of the sword.
  • Job 18:6 : 6 The light shall be dark in his tent, And his lamp above him shall be put out.
  • Job 18:18 : 18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 19:7-9
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    79%

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

    8He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.

    9He hath stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head.

  • Job 29:3-4
    2 verses
    78%

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

    4As I was in the ripeness of my days, When the friendship of God was upon my tent;

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

  • Job 23:15-16
    2 verses
    77%

    15Therefore am I terrified at his presence; When I consider, I am afraid of him.

    16For God hath made my heart faint, And the Almighty hath terrified me;

  • Ps 139:11-12
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    76%

    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 10:20-22
    3 verses
    76%

    20Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

    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.

  • Job 3:4-6
    3 verses
    76%

    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.

  • Job 3:16
    76%

    16Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light.

  • Job 3:9-10
    2 verses
    75%

    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:

    10Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother's] womb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes.

  • Job 23:7-9
    3 verses
    75%

    7There the upright might reason with him; So should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

    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 17:11-13
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    75%

    11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, Even the thoughts of my heart.

    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;

  • Job 3:23
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    23[ Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, And whom God hath hedged in?

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

  • Lam 3:6-7
    2 verses
    75%

    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.

  • Job 13:24
    74%

    24Wherefore hidest thou thy face, And holdest me for thine enemy?

  • Ps 31:22
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    22As for me, I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: Nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications When I cried unto thee.

  • Job 16:16-17
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    74%

    16My face is red with weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

    17Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure.

  • Jer 17:16
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    16As for me, I have not hastened from being a shepherd after thee; neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was before thy face.

  • Job 31:23
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    23For calamity from God is a terror to me, And by reason of his majesty I can do nothing.

  • Job 13:20
    74%

    20Only do not two things unto me; Then will I not hide myself from thy face:

  • Ps 18:28
    74%

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

  • Job 17:7
    74%

    7Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow.

  • 2 Sam 22:29
    74%

    29For thou art my lamp, O Jehovah; And Jehovah will lighten my darkness.

  • Job 38:19
    74%

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

  • Ps 143:3
    73%

    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 10:18
    73%

    18Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me.

  • Job 37:19
    73%

    19Teach us what we shall say unto him; [For] we cannot set [our speech] in order by reason of darkness.

  • Job 6:10
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    10And be it still my consolation, Yea, let me exult in pain that spareth not, That I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

  • Job 12:22
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    22He uncovereth deep things out of darkness, And bringeth out to light the shadow of death.

  • Job 14:13
    72%

    13Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, That thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, That thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

  • Job 18:6
    72%

    6The light shall be dark in his tent, And his lamp above him shall be put out.

  • Lam 3:17
    72%

    17And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace; I forgat prosperity.

  • Job 6:13
    72%

    13Is it not that I have no help in me, And that wisdom is driven quite from me?

  • Job 28:3
    72%

    3[ Man] setteth an end to darkness, And searcheth out, to the furthest bound, The stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.