Job 19:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 3:23 : 23 To a man whose way is veiled, and who is shut in by God?
  • Lam 3:7 : 7 He has put a wall round me, so that I am not able to go out; he has made great the weight of my chain.
  • Lam 3:9 : 9 He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.
  • Hos 2:6 : 6 For this cause I will put thorns in her road, building up a wall round her so that she may not go on her way.
  • John 8:12 : 12 Then again Jesus said to them, I am the light of the world; he who comes with me will not be walking in the dark but will have the light of life.
  • Job 30:26 : 26 For I was looking for good, and evil came; I was waiting for light, and it became dark.
  • Ps 88:8 : 8 You have sent my friends far away from me; you have made me a disgusting thing in their eyes: I am shut up, and not able to come out.
  • Prov 4:19 : 19 The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.
  • Isa 50:10 : 10 Who among you has the fear of the Lord, giving ear to the voice of his servant who has been walking in the dark and has no light? Let him put his faith in the name of the Lord, looking to his God for support.
  • Jer 13:16 : 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.
  • Jer 23:12 : 12 For this cause their steps will be slipping on their way: they will be forced on into the dark and have a fall there: for I will send evil on them in the year of their punishment, says the Lord.
  • Josh 24:7 : 7 And at their cry, the Lord made it dark between you and the Egyptians, and made the sea go over them, covering them with its waters; your eyes have seen what I did in Egypt: then for a long time you were living in the waste land.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lam 3:5-9
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    86%

    5 He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow.

    6 He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.

    7 He has put a wall round me, so that I am not able to go out; he has made great the weight of my chain.

    8 Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out.

    9 He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.

  • Job 19:9-13
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    81%

    9 He has put off my glory from me, and taken the crown from my head.

    10 I am broken down by him on every side, and I am gone; my hope is uprooted like a tree.

    11 His wrath is burning against me, and I am to him as one of his haters.

    12 His armies come on together, they make their road high against me, and put up their tents round mine.

    13 He has taken my brothers far away from me; they have seen my fate and have become strange to me.

  • Lam 3:2-3
    2 verses
    81%

    2 By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light.

    3 Truly against me his hand has been turned again and again all the day.

  • Lam 3:11
    79%

    11 By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.

  • Job 19:6-7
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    79%

    6 Be certain that it is God who has done me wrong, and has taken me in his net.

    7 Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause.

  • Job 23:17
    79%

    17 For I am overcome by the dark, and by the black night which is covering my face.

  • Job 33:10-11
    2 verses
    78%

    10 See, he is looking for something against me; in his eyes I am as one of his haters;

    11 He puts chains on my feet; he is watching all my ways.

  • Job 3:23
    76%

    23 To a man whose way is veiled, and who is shut in by God?

  • Job 38:19
    76%

    19 Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark;

  • Job 29:3
    76%

    3 When his light was shining over my head, and when I went through the dark by his light.

  • Job 38:10
    76%

    10 Ordering a fixed limit for it, with locks and doors;

  • Job 30:19
    75%

    19 Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.

  • Job 23:8-9
    2 verses
    75%

    8 See, I go forward, but he is not there; and back, but I do not see him;

    9 I am looking for him on the left hand, but there is no sign of him; and turning to the right, I am not able to see him.

  • Job 30:13
    75%

    13 They have made waste my roads, with a view to my destruction; his bowmen come round about me;

  • Lam 1:13
    75%

    13 From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it has overcome them: his net is stretched out for my feet, I am turned back by him; he has made me waste and feeble all the day.

  • Ps 88:8
    75%

    8 You have sent my friends far away from me; you have made me a disgusting thing in their eyes: I am shut up, and not able to come out.

  • Ps 139:11
    75%

    11 If I say, Only let me be covered by the dark, and the light about me be night;

  • Job 18:6-7
    2 verses
    74%

    6 The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out.

    7 The steps of his strength become short, and by his design destruction overtakes him.

  • Ps 143:3
    74%

    3 The evil man has gone after my soul; my life is crushed down to the earth: he has put me in the dark, like those who have long been dead.

  • Job 9:17-18
    2 verses
    74%

    17 For I would be crushed by his storm, my wounds would be increased without cause.

    18 He would not let me take my breath, but I would be full of bitter grief.

  • Ps 142:3
    74%

    3 When my spirit is overcome, your eyes are on my goings; nets have been secretly placed in the way in which I go.

  • Prov 4:19
    74%

    19 The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.

  • Job 22:11
    73%

    11 Your light is made dark so that you are unable to see, and you are covered by a mass of waters.

  • Job 17:12-13
    2 verses
    73%

    12 They are changing night into day; they say, The light is near the dark.

    13 If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;

  • Isa 59:9
    73%

    9 For this cause our right is far from us, and righteousness does not overtake us: we are looking for light, but there is only the dark; for the shining of the sun, but our way is in the night.

  • Job 10:21-22
    2 verses
    73%

    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.

  • Ps 18:28
    73%

    28 You, O Lord, will be my light; by you, my God, the dark will be made bright for me.

  • Job 9:11
    73%

    11 See, he goes past me and I see him not: he goes on before, but I have no knowledge of him.

  • Job 22:14
    73%

    14 Thick clouds are covering him, so that he is unable to see; and he is walking on the arch of heaven.

  • Job 3:9
    73%

    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.

  • Ps 18:11
    72%

    11 He made the dark his secret place; his tent round him was the dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

  • Job 3:5
    72%

    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.

  • Job 18:18
    72%

    18 He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.

  • Job 31:4
    72%

    4 Does he not see my ways, and are not my steps all numbered?