Job 37:19

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 12:3 : 3 But I have a mind as well as you; I am equal to you: yes, who has not knowledge of such things as these?
  • Job 13:3 : 3 But I would have talk with the Ruler of all, and my desire is to have an argument with God.
  • Job 13:6 : 6 Give ear to the argument of my mouth, and take note of the words of my lips.
  • Job 26:14 : 14 See, these are only the outskirts of his ways; and how small is that which comes to our ears about him! But the thunder of his acts of power is outside all knowledge.
  • Job 28:20-21 : 20 From where then does wisdom come, and where is the resting-place of knowledge? 21 For it is kept secret from the eyes of all living, unseen by the birds of the air.
  • Job 38:2 : 2 Who is this who makes the purpose of God dark by words without knowledge?
  • Job 42:3 : 3 Who is this who makes dark the purpose of God by words without knowledge? For I have been talking without knowledge about wonders not to be searched out.
  • Ps 73:16-17 : 16 When my thoughts were turned to see the reason of this, it was a weariness in my eyes; 17 Till I went into God's holy place, and saw the end of the evil-doers.
  • Ps 73:22 : 22 As for me, I was foolish, and without knowledge; I was like a beast before you.
  • Ps 139:6 : 6 Such knowledge is a wonder greater than my powers; it is so high that I may not come near it.
  • Prov 30:2-4 : 2 For I am more like a beast than any man, I have no power of reasoning like a man: 3 I have not got wisdom by teaching, so that I might have the knowledge of the Holy One. 4 Who has gone up to heaven and come down? who has taken the winds in his hands, prisoning the waters in his robe? by whom have all the ends of the earth been fixed? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if you are able to say?
  • 1 Cor 13:12 : 12 For now we see things in a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now my knowledge is in part; then it will be complete, even as God's knowledge of me.
  • 1 John 3:2 : 2 My loved ones, now we are children of God, and at present it is not clear what we are to be. We are certain that at his revelation we will be like him; for we will see him as he is.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 20 How may he have knowledge of my desire for talk with him? or did any man ever say, May destruction come on me?

  • Job 38:19-20
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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;

    20 So that you might take it to its limit, guiding it to its house?

  • 13 And you say, What knowledge has God? is he able to give decisions through the deep dark?

  • 2 Who is this who makes the purpose of God dark by words without knowledge?

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

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

  • 18 Will you, with him, make the skies smooth, and strong as a polished looking-glass?

  • Isa 59:9-10
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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.

    10 We go on our way, like blind men feeling for the wall, even like those who have no eyes: we are running against things in daylight as if it was evening; our place is in the dark like dead men.

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

  • 9 What knowledge have you which we have not? is there anything in your mind which is not in ours?

  • Job 8:9-10
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    9 (For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:)

    10 Will they not give you teaching, and say words of wisdom to you?

  • 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.

  • Ps 139:11-12
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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.

  • Job 38:34-35
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    72%

    34 Is your voice sent up to the cloud, so that you may be covered by the weight of waters?

    35 Do you send out the thunder-flames, so that they may go, and say to you, Here we are?

  • Job 3:4-6
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    72%

    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.

  • Job 42:3-4
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    3 Who is this who makes dark the purpose of God by words without knowledge? For I have been talking without knowledge about wonders not to be searched out.

    4 Give ear to me, and I will say what is in my mind; I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.

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

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

  • 32 He takes the light in his hands, sending it against the mark.

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

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

  • 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.

  • 14 In the daytime it becomes dark for them, and in the sunlight they go feeling about as if it was night.

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

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

  • 19 Though you have let us be crushed in the place of jackals, though we are covered with darkest shade.

  • 24 Give me teaching and I will be quiet; and make me see my error.

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

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

  • 24 Which is the way to the place where the wind is measured out, and the east wind sent out over the earth?

  • 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.

  • 3 That the Lord your God may make clear to us the way in which we are to go and what we are to do.

  • 12 O our God, will you not be their judge? for our strength is not equal to this great army which is coming against us; and we are at a loss what to do: but our eyes are on you.

  • 3 Why do we seem as beasts in your eyes, and as completely without knowledge?

  • 32 ...

  • 12 So give us knowledge of the number of our days, that we may get a heart of wisdom.

  • 15 Have you knowledge of God's ordering of his works, how he makes the light of his cloud to be seen?

  • 20 Will not the day of the Lord be dark and not light? even very dark, with no light shining in it?

  • 3 How have you given teaching to him who has no wisdom, and fully made clear true knowledge!

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

  • 5 I would see what his answers would be, and have knowledge of what he would say to me.

  • 11 Who gives us more knowledge than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heaven?