Job 17:12

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They make night into day: ‘The light is near,’ they say, in the presence of darkness.

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  • Deut 28:67 : 67 In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘If only it were morning!’ because of the terror that will fill your hearts and the sights your eyes will see.
  • Job 7:3-4 : 3 so I have been allotted months of futility, and nights of misery have been assigned to me. 4 When I lie down, I think, 'When will I get up?' But the night drags on, and I am filled with tossing till dawn.
  • Job 7:13-14 : 13 When I think my bed will comfort me, and my couch will ease my complaint, 14 then you frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions.
  • Job 24:14-16 : 14 At daybreak, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy, and at night, he is like a thief. 15 The adulterer waits for twilight, saying, 'No one will see me,' and he disguises his face. 16 In the darkness, they break into houses, but by day, they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 5:14
    80%

    14 They encounter darkness by day and grope in the noonday as if it were night.

  • Job 24:16-17
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    79%

    16 In the darkness, they break into houses, but by day, they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.

    17 For to them, the morning is like deep darkness; they are familiar with the terrors of the shadow of death.

  • Job 17:11
    79%

    11 My days have passed, my plans are broken off, and the desires of my heart are gone.

  • Job 17:13
    79%

    13 If I hope for Sheol as my home, and I make my bed in darkness,

  • Ps 139:11-12
    2 verses
    78%

    11 If I say, 'Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,'

    12 even the darkness will not be dark to You; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to You.

  • Job 10:21-22
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    77%

    21 Before I go, never to return, to a land of darkness and deep shadow.

    22 A land of gloom like deep darkness, a land of shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.

  • Job 3:4-6
    3 verses
    76%

    4 May that day be darkness; may God above not seek it, nor let light shine upon it.

    5 Let darkness and deep shadow claim it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let blackness of the day terrify it.

    6 As for that night, let thick darkness seize it; let it not be joined to the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.

  • Amos 5:20
    76%

    20 Won’t the day of the Lord be darkness and not light, gloom with no brightness in it?

  • Job 24:13-14
    2 verses
    75%

    13 They are among those who rebel against the light; they do not recognize its ways nor stay on its paths.

    14 At daybreak, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy, and at night, he is like a thief.

  • Job 18:5-6
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    75%

    5 Indeed, the light of the wicked will be extinguished, and the flame of his fire will not shine.

    6 The light in his tent will grow dark, and the lamp above him will be extinguished.

  • Job 3:8-9
    2 verses
    75%

    8 Let those who curse the day curse it, those who are skilled to rouse Leviathan.

    9 Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light but have none, nor see the eyelids of the morning.

  • Job 23:17
    75%

    17 Yet I am not silenced by the darkness or by the deep gloom that covers my face.

  • Job 12:22
    74%

    22 He reveals the deep things from darkness and brings deep shadows into the light.

  • Eccl 12:2-3
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    74%

    2 Before the sun, light, moon, and stars grow dark, and the clouds return after the rain.

    3 On the day when those who watch over the house tremble, the strong men stoop, and the women who grind cease because they are few, and those looking through the windows grow dim.

  • Prov 4:19
    74%

    19 The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know what makes them stumble.

  • Jer 13:16
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    16 Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, and before your feet stumble on the darkening mountains. You hope for light, but He will turn it to gloom and thick darkness.

  • Prov 7:9
    74%

    9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the dark of night and in deep darkness.

  • Job 38:19
    74%

    19 Where is the way that light dwells, and where is the place of darkness,

  • Isa 17:14
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    14 In the evening, sudden terror! Before morning, they are no more. This is the fate of those who plunder us and the lot of those who pillage us.

  • Lam 3:2
    73%

    2 He has driven me away and brought me into darkness, not into light.

  • Isa 8:22
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    22 Then they will look toward the earth and see only distress and darkness and fearful gloom, and they will be thrust into utter darkness.

  • Rom 13:12
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    12 The night is far gone, and the day is near. So let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.

  • Job 12:25
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    25 They grope in the darkness without light; He makes them stagger like a drunkard.

  • Ps 74:16
    73%

    16 The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the light and the sun.

  • Ps 104:20
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    20 You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the animals of the forest come out.

  • Zech 14:6
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    6 On that day, there will be no light; the precious lights will diminish and freeze.

  • Isa 5:30
    73%

    30 On that day, they will roar over it like the roaring of the sea. And if one looks at the land, there is only darkness and distress; even the light is darkened by the clouds.

  • Mic 3:6
    73%

    6 Therefore night will come over you—without visions; the darkness will fall—without divination. The sun will set for the prophets, and the day will grow dark for them.

  • Job 19:8
    73%

    8 He has blocked my path so I cannot pass; He has shrouded my ways with darkness.

  • Ezek 32:8
    72%

    8 All the shining lights in the sky I will darken over you, and I will bring darkness over your land, declares the Lord GOD.

  • Lam 3:6
    72%

    6 He has made me dwell in dark places, like those long dead.

  • Job 17:7
    72%

    7 My eyes have grown dim from grief, and all my limbs are like a shadow.

  • Job 29:3
    72%

    3 when His lamp shone upon my head, and I walked by His light through the darkness.

  • Amos 8:9
    72%

    9 'On that day,' declares the Lord God, 'I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight.'

  • Ps 18:28
    72%

    28 You save a humble people, but You bring low those whose eyes are haughty.

  • Isa 13:10
    72%

    10 The stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened as it rises, and the moon will not shine its light.

  • Joel 3:15
    72%

    15 The sun and moon will grow dark, and the stars will withdraw their brightness.

  • Job 4:20
    72%

    20 From morning to evening they are broken to pieces; without anyone noticing, they perish forever.

  • John 12:35
    72%

    35 Then Jesus said to them, "The light will be with you only a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, so that darkness does not overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.

  • Job 7:4
    72%

    4 When I lie down, I think, 'When will I get up?' But the night drags on, and I am filled with tossing till dawn.

  • John 11:10
    72%

    10 'But if anyone walks at night, he stumbles, because there is no light in him.'

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