Job 23:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 19:8 : 8 My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.
  • Job 22:11 : 11 Your light is made dark so that you are unable to see, and you are covered by a mass of waters.
  • Isa 57:1 : 1 The upright man goes to his death, and no one gives a thought to it; and god-fearing men are taken away, and no one is troubled by it; for the upright man is taken away because of evil-doing, and goes into peace.
  • 2 Kgs 22:20 : 20 For this cause I will let you go to your fathers and be put in your last resting-place in peace, and your eyes will not see all the evil which I will send on this place. So they took this news back to the king.
  • Job 6:9 : 9 If only he would be pleased to put an end to me; and would let loose his hand, so that I might be cut off!
  • Job 15:22 : 22 He has no hope of coming safe out of the dark, and his fate will be the sword;
  • Job 18:6 : 6 The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out.
  • Job 18:18 : 18 He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.

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    7Truly, 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.

    8My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.

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

  • Job 29:3-4
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    3When his light was shining over my head, and when I went through the dark by his light.

    4As I was in my flowering years, when my tent was covered by the hand of God;

  • Lam 3:2
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    2By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light.

  • Job 23:15-16
    2 verses
    77%

    15For this cause I am in fear before him, my thoughts of him overcome me.

    16For God has made my heart feeble, and my mind is troubled before the Ruler of all.

  • Ps 139:11-12
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    11If I say, Only let me be covered by the dark, and the light about me be night;

    12Even the dark is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day: for dark and light are the same to you.

  • Job 10:20-22
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    20Are not the days of my life small in number? Let your eyes be turned away from me, so that I may have a little pleasure,

    21Before I go to the place from which I will not come back, to the land where all is dark and black,

    22A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.

  • Job 3:4-6
    3 verses
    76%

    4That day--let it be dark; let not God take note of it from on high, and let not the light be shining on it;

    5Let 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.

    6That 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.

  • Job 3:16
    76%

    16Or as a child dead at birth I might never have come into existence; like young children who have not seen the light.

  • Job 3:9-10
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    75%

    9Let 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.

    10Because it did not keep the doors of my mother's body shut, so that trouble might be veiled from my eyes.

  • Job 23:7-9
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    7There an upright man might put his cause before him; and I would be free for ever from my judge.

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

    9I 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 17:11-13
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    75%

    11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the desires of my heart.

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

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

  • Job 3:23
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    23To a man whose way is veiled, and who is shut in by God?

  • Job 22:11
    75%

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

  • Lam 3:6-7
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    75%

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

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

  • Job 13:24
    74%

    24Why is your face veiled from me, as if I was numbered among your haters?

  • Ps 31:22
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    22And as for me, I said in my fear, I am cut off from before your eyes; but you gave ear to the voice of my prayer, when my cry went up to you.

  • Job 16:16-17
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    16My face is red with weeping, and my eyes are becoming dark;

    17Though my hands have done no violent acts, and my prayer is clean.

  • Jer 17:16
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    16As for me, I have not said; Let the day of trouble come to them quickly; and I have not been hoping for the death-giving day; you have knowledge of what came from my lips; it was open before you.

  • Job 31:23
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    23For the fear of God kept me back, and because of his power I might not do such things.

  • Job 13:20
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    20Only two things do not do to me, then I will come before your face:

  • Ps 18:28
    74%

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

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    7My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade.

  • 2 Sam 22:29
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    29For you are my light, O Lord; and the Lord will make the dark bright for me.

  • Job 38:19
    74%

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

  • Ps 143:3
    73%

    3The 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 10:18
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    18Why then did you make me come out of my mother's body? It would have been better for me to have taken my last breath, and for no eye to have seen me,

  • Job 37:19
    73%

    19Make clear to me what we are to say to him; we are unable to put our cause before him, because of the dark.

  • Job 6:10
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    10So I would still have comfort, and I would have joy in the pains of death, for I have not been false to the words of the Holy One.

  • Job 12:22
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    22Uncovering deep things out of the dark, and making the deep shade bright;

  • Job 14:13
    72%

    13If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!

  • Job 18:6
    72%

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

  • Lam 3:17
    72%

    17My soul is sent far away from peace, I have no more memory of good.

  • Job 6:13
    72%

    13I have no help in myself, and wisdom is completely gone from me.

  • Job 28:3
    72%

    3Man puts an end to the dark, searching out to the farthest limit the stones of the deep places of the dark.