Job 17:12
They are changing night into day; they say, The light is near the dark.
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Referenced Verses
- Deut 28:67 : 67 In the morning you will say, If only it was evening! And at evening you will say, If only morning would come! Because of the fear in your hearts and the things which your eyes will see.
- Job 7:3-4 : 3 So I have for my heritage months of pain to no purpose, and nights of weariness are given to me. 4 When I go to my bed, I say, When will it be time to get up? but the night is long, and I am turning from side to side till morning light.
- Job 7:13-14 : 13 When I say, In my bed I will have comfort, there I will get rest from my disease; 14 Then you send dreams to me, and visions of fear;
- Job 24:14-16 : 14 He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need. 15 And the man whose desire is for the wife of another is waiting for the evening, saying, No eye will see me; and he puts a cover on his face. And in the night the thief goes about; 16 In the dark he makes holes in the walls of houses: in the daytime they are shutting themselves up, they have no knowledge of the light.
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14 In the daytime it becomes dark for them, and in the sunlight they go feeling about as if it was night.
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16 In the dark he makes holes in the walls of houses: in the daytime they are shutting themselves up, they have no knowledge of the light.
17 For the middle of the night is as morning to them, they are not troubled by the fear of the dark.
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11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the desires of my heart.
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13 If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;
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11 If I say, Only let me be covered by the dark, and the light about me be night;
12 Even the dark is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day: for dark and light are the same to you.
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21 Before I go to the place from which I will not come back, to the land where all is dark and black,
22 A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.
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4 That day--let it be dark; let not God take note of it from on high, and let not the light be shining on it;
5 Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it.
6 That night--let the thick dark take it; let it not have joy among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.
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20 Will not the day of the Lord be dark and not light? even very dark, with no light shining in it?
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13 Then there are those who are haters of the light, who have no knowledge of its ways, and do not go in them.
14 He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need.
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5 For the light of the sinner is put out, and the flame of his fire is not shining.
6 The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out.
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8 Let it be cursed by those who put a curse on the day; who are ready to make Leviathan awake.
9 Let its morning stars be dark; let it be looking for light, but may it not have any; let it not see the eyes of the dawn.
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17 For I am overcome by the dark, and by the black night which is covering my face.
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22 Uncovering deep things out of the dark, and making the deep shade bright;
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2 While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, are not dark, and the clouds come not back after the rain;
3 In the day when the keepers of the house are shaking for fear, and the strong men are bent down, and the women who were crushing the grain are at rest because their number is small, and those looking out of the windows are unable to see;
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19 The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.
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16 Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.
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9 At nightfall, in the evening of the day, in the black dark of the night.
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19 Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark;
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14 In the evening there is fear, and in the morning they are gone. This is the fate of those who take our goods, and the reward of those who violently take our property for themselves.
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2 By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light.
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22 And he will be looking down on the earth, and there will be trouble and dark clouds, black night where there is no seeing.
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12 The night is far gone, and the day is near: so let us put off the works of the dark, arming ourselves with light,
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25 They go feeling about in the dark without light, wandering without help like those overcome with wine.
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16 The day is yours and the night is yours: you made the light and the sun.
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20 When you make it dark, it is night, when all the beasts of the woods come quietly out of their secret places.
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6 And in that day there will be no heat or cold or ice;
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30 And his voice will be loud over him in that day like the sounding of the sea: and if a man's eyes are turned to the earth, it is all dark and full of trouble; and the light is made dark by thick clouds.
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6 For this cause it will be night for you, without a vision; and it will be dark for you, without knowledge of the future; the sun will go down over the prophets, and the day will be black over them.
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8 My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.
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8 All the bright lights of heaven I will make dark over you, and put dark night on your land, says the Lord.
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6 He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.
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7 My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade.
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3 When his light was shining over my head, and when I went through the dark by his light.
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9 And it will come about in that day, says the Lord God, that I will make the sun go down in the middle of the day, and I will make the earth dark in daylight:
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28 You, O Lord, will be my light; by you, my God, the dark will be made bright for me.
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10 For the stars of heaven and its bright armies will not give their light: the sun will be made dark in his journey through the heaven, and the moon will keep back her light.
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15 Get your plough-blades hammered into swords, and your vine-knives into spears: let the feeble say, I am strong.
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20 Between morning and evening they are completely broken; they come to an end for ever, and no one takes note.
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35 Jesus said to them, For a little time longer the light will be among you; while you have the light go on walking in it, so that the dark may not overtake you: one walking in the dark has no knowledge of where he is going.
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4 When I go to my bed, I say, When will it be time to get up? but the night is long, and I am turning from side to side till morning light.
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10 But if a man goes about in the night, he may have a fall because the light is not in him.