Job 19:8

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 3:23 : 23 To a man whose path is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?
  • Lam 3:7 : 7 He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed down my chains.
  • Lam 3:9 : 9 He has blocked my ways with cut stone; He has made my paths crooked.
  • Hos 2:6 : 6 I will not show mercy to her children, for they are the children of unfaithfulness.
  • John 8:12 : 12 Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness but will have the light of life."
  • Job 30:26 : 26 But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness came.
  • Ps 88:8 : 8 Your wrath weighs heavily upon me, and you have overwhelmed me with all your waves. Selah.
  • Prov 4:19 : 19 The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know what makes them stumble.
  • Isa 50:10 : 10 Who among you fears the LORD and listens to the voice of his servant? Let the one who walks in darkness, who has no light, trust in the name of the LORD and rely on his God.
  • Jer 13:16 : 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.
  • Jer 23:12 : 12 Therefore, their path will become for them like slippery places in the darkness. They will be pushed and fall there, for I will bring disaster upon them in the year of their punishment, declares the LORD.
  • Josh 24:7 : 7 Your ancestors cried out to the LORD, and He put darkness between you and the Egyptians. He brought the sea over them and covered them. Your eyes witnessed what I did to Egypt. Then you lived in the wilderness for a long time.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lam 3:5-9
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    5He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

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

    7He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed down my chains.

    8Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.

    9He has blocked my ways with cut stone; He has made my paths crooked.

  • Job 19:9-13
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    9He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.

    10He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone; He uproots my hope like a tree.

    11His anger burns against me, and He counts me as one of His enemies.

    12His troops assemble together; they raise a siege against me and encamp around my dwelling.

    13He has driven my brothers far from me, and my acquaintances have turned against me.

  • Lam 3:2-3
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    2He has driven me away and brought me into darkness, not into light.

    3Surely against me He turns His hand again and again, all day long.

  • Lam 3:11
    79%

    11He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.

  • Job 19:6-7
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    6know then that God has wronged me and surrounded me with His net.

    7Behold, I cry out, 'Violence!' but I am not answered; I call for help, but there is no justice.

  • Job 23:17
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    17Yet I am not silenced by the darkness or by the deep gloom that covers my face.

  • Job 33:10-11
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    10But look, He finds faults against me; He considers me His enemy.

    11He puts my feet in the stocks; He watches all my paths.

  • Job 3:23
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    23To a man whose path is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?

  • Job 38:19
    76%

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

  • Job 29:3
    76%

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

  • Job 38:10
    76%

    10when I set its boundary and placed bars and doors on it,

  • Job 30:19
    75%

    19He has cast me into the mud, and I am reduced to dust and ashes.

  • Job 23:8-9
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    8But if I go to the east, he is not there; if I go to the west, I cannot perceive him.

    9When he is at work in the north, I do not see him; when he turns to the south, I cannot catch a glimpse of him.

  • Job 30:13
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    13They tear up my path; they help advance my ruin, even though no one comes to assist them.

  • Lam 1:13
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    13From on high he sent fire; it burns in my bones. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, faint all the day long.

  • Ps 88:8
    75%

    8Your wrath weighs heavily upon me, and you have overwhelmed me with all your waves. Selah.

  • Ps 139:11
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    11If I say, 'Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,'

  • Job 18:6-7
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    74%

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

    7His vigorous steps will be restricted, and his own counsel will cast him down.

  • Ps 143:3
    74%

    3For the enemy has pursued me, crushing my life to the ground and making me dwell in darkness, like those long dead.

  • Job 9:17-18
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    17For He crushes me with a tempest and multiplies my wounds without cause.

    18He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

  • Ps 142:3
    74%

    3I pour out my complaint before Him; I declare my troubles to Him.

  • Prov 4:19
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    19The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know what makes them stumble.

  • Job 22:11
    73%

    11It is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of waters covers you.

  • Job 17:12-13
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    12They make night into day: ‘The light is near,’ they say, in the presence of darkness.

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

  • Isa 59:9
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    9Therefore, justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but behold, there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom.

  • Job 10:21-22
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    73%

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

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

  • Ps 18:28
    73%

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

  • Job 9:11
    73%

    11Behold, He passes by me, and I do not see Him; He moves on, and I do not perceive Him.

  • Job 22:14
    73%

    14Clouds cover Him so He cannot see as He walks on the circle of the heavens.

  • Job 3:9
    73%

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

  • Ps 18:11
    72%

    11He mounted a cherub and flew; He soared on the wings of the wind.

  • Job 3:5
    72%

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

  • Job 18:18
    72%

    18He is driven from light into darkness and chased out of the world.

  • Job 31:4
    72%

    4Does He not see my ways and count all my steps?