Job 3:9
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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Referenced Verses
- Job 41:18 : 18 Iron is to him as dry grass, and brass as soft wood.
- Jer 8:15 : 15 We were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there is only a great fear.
- 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.
- Job 30:26 : 26 For I was looking for good, and evil came; I was waiting for light, and it became dark.
Similar Verses (AI)
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- Job 3:3-86 verses87%
3 Let destruction take the day of my birth, and the night on which it was said, A man child has come into the world.
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.
7 As for that night, let it have no fruit; let no voice of joy be sounded in it;
8 Let it be cursed by those who put a curse on the day; who are ready to make Leviathan awake.
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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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10 Because it did not keep the doors of my mother's body shut, so that trouble might be veiled from my eyes.
- Job 18:5-62 verses76%
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.
- Eccl 12:2-32 verses76%
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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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 Will not the day of the Lord be dark and not light? even very dark, with no light shining in it?
- Job 10:21-222 verses75%
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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5 See, even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not clean in his eyes:
- Job 17:12-132 verses75%
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;
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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 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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16 Or as a child dead at birth I might never have come into existence; like young children who have not seen the light.
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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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7 Who gives orders to the sun, and it does not give its light; and who keeps the stars from shining.
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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;
- Job 24:16-172 verses73%
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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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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11 Your light is made dark so that you are unable to see, and you are covered by a mass of waters.
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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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18 He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.
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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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23 To a man whose way is veiled, and who is shut in by God?
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20 ...
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3 When his light was shining over my head, and when I went through the dark by his light.
- Ps 139:11-122 verses72%
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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20 Why does he give light to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul;
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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.
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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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18 Why 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,
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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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26 For I was looking for good, and evil came; I was waiting for light, and it became dark.
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6 He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.
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9 At nightfall, in the evening of the day, in the black dark of the night.
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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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17 And your life will be brighter than day; though it is dark, it will become like the morning.
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4 In wind it came and to the dark it will go, and with the dark will its name be covered.
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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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23 Looking at the earth, I saw that it was waste and without form; and to the heavens, that they had no light.