Job 37:19

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 12:3 : 3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: Yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
  • Job 13:3 : 3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, And I desire to reason with God.
  • Job 13:6 : 6 Hear now my reasoning, And hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
  • Job 26:14 : 14 Lo, these are but the outskirts of his ways: And how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?
  • Job 28:20-21 : 20 Whence then cometh wisdom? And where is the place of understanding? 21 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, And kept close from the birds of the heavens.
  • Job 38:2 : 2 Who is this that darkeneth counsel By words without knowledge?
  • Job 42:3 : 3 Who is this that hideth counsel without knowledge? Therefore have I uttered that which I understood not, Things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
  • Ps 73:16-17 : 16 When I thought how I might know this, It was too painful for me; 17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God, And considered their latter end.
  • Ps 73:22 : 22 So brutish was I, and ignorant; I was [as] a beast before thee.
  • Ps 139:6 : 6 [ Such] knowledge is too wonderful for me; It is high, I cannot attain unto it.
  • Prov 30:2-4 : 2 Surely I am more brutish than any man, And have not the understanding of a man; 3 And I have not learned wisdom, Neither have I the knowledge of the Holy One. 4 Who hath ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who hath gathered the wind in his fists? Who hath bound the waters in his garment? Who hath established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou knowest?
  • 1 Cor 13:12 : 12 For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know fully even as also I was fully known.
  • 1 John 3:2 : 2 Beloved, now are we children of God, and it is not yet made manifest what we shall be. We know that, if he shall be manifested, we shall be like him; for we shall see him even as he is.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 20Shall it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?

  • Job 38:19-20
    2 verses
    77%

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

    20That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, And that thou shouldest discern the paths to the house thereof?

  • 13And thou sayest, What doth God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

  • 2Who is this that darkeneth counsel By words without knowledge?

  • 22The land dark as midnight, [The land] of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as midnight.

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

  • 18Canst thou with him spread out the sky, Which is strong as a molten mirror?

  • Isa 59:9-10
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    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.

    10We grope for the wall like the blind; yea, we grope as they that have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among them that are lusty we are as dead men.

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

  • 9What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, which is not in us?

  • Job 8:9-10
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    72%

    9(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days upon earth are a shadow);

    10Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, And utter words out of their heart?

  • 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.

  • Ps 139:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    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 38:34-35
    2 verses
    72%

    34Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover thee?

    35Canst thou send forth lightnings, that they may go, And say unto thee, Here we are?

  • Job 3:4-6
    3 verses
    72%

    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 42:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    3Who is this that hideth counsel without knowledge? Therefore have I uttered that which I understood not, Things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

    4Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak; I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.

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

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

  • 32He covereth his hands with the lightning, And giveth it a charge that it strike the mark.

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

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

  • 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:

  • 14They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.

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

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

  • 19That thou hast sore broken us in the place of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death.

  • 24Teach me, and I will hold my peace; And cause me to understand wherein I have erred.

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

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

  • 24By what way is the light parted, Or the east wind scattered upon the earth?

  • 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.

  • 3that Jehovah thy God may show us the way wherein we should walk, and the thing that we should do.

  • 12O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee.

  • 3Wherefore are we counted as beasts, [And] are become unclean in your sight?

  • 32That which I see not teach thou me: If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more?

  • 12So teach us to number our days, That we may get us a heart of wisdom.

  • 15Dost thou know how God layeth [his charge] upon them, And causeth the lightning of his cloud to shine?

  • 20Shall not the day of Jehovah be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

  • 3How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom, And plentifully declared sound knowledge!

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

  • 5I would know the words which he would answer me, And understand what he would say unto me.

  • 11Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, And maketh us wiser than the birds of the heavens?