Job 23:17

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 19:8 : 8 He has blocked my path so I cannot pass; He has shrouded my ways with darkness.
  • Job 22:11 : 11 It is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of waters covers you.
  • Isa 57:1 : 1 The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; faithful people are taken away, and no one understands that the righteous are taken away to be spared from evil.
  • 2 Kgs 22:20 : 20 Therefore, behold, I will gather you to your ancestors, and you will be buried in peace. Your eyes will not see all the disaster that I am going to bring upon this place.’” Then they brought back word to the king.
  • Job 6:9 : 9 That God would be willing to crush me, to let loose His hand and cut me off!
  • Job 15:22 : 22 He does not believe he will return from the darkness; he is marked for the sword.
  • Job 18:6 : 6 The light in his tent will grow dark, and the lamp above him will be extinguished.
  • Job 18:18 : 18 He is driven from light into darkness and chased out of the world.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 19:7-9
    3 verses
    79%

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

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

    9He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.

  • Job 29:3-4
    2 verses
    78%

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

    4I was as in the prime of my life, when the intimate friendship of God was over my tent.

  • Lam 3:2
    77%

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

  • Job 23:15-16
    2 verses
    77%

    15That is why I am terrified in his presence; when I consider, I am afraid of him.

    16God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me.

  • Ps 139:11-12
    2 verses
    76%

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

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

  • Job 10:20-22
    3 verses
    76%

    20Are not my days few? Leave me alone, so I may have a moment of relief.

    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.

  • Job 3:4-6
    3 verses
    76%

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

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

    6As 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.

  • Job 3:16
    76%

    16Or why was I not like a stillborn child, like infants who never saw the light?

  • Job 3:9-10
    2 verses
    75%

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

    10Because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes.

  • Job 23:7-9
    3 verses
    75%

    7There the upright could reason with him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.

    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 17:11-13
    3 verses
    75%

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

    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,

  • Job 3:23
    75%

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

  • Job 22:11
    75%

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

  • Lam 3:6-7
    2 verses
    75%

    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.

  • Job 13:24
    74%

    24Why do You hide Your face and consider me as Your enemy?

  • Ps 31:22
    74%

    22Blessed be the LORD, for he has shown his wondrous love to me in a fortified city.

  • Job 16:16-17
    2 verses
    74%

    16My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death.

    17Yet my hands are free of violence, and my prayer is pure.

  • Jer 17:16
    74%

    16I have not hurried away from being a shepherd after You. I have not desired the day of disaster. You know what has come from my lips; it was before You.

  • Job 31:23
    74%

    23For I have always feared disaster from God, and because of His majesty, I could not do such a thing.

  • Job 13:20
    74%

    20Only grant me these two things, so that I will not hide myself from You:

  • Ps 18:28
    74%

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

  • Job 17:7
    74%

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

  • 2 Sam 22:29
    74%

    29For you are my lamp, O LORD; the LORD illumines my darkness.

  • Job 38:19
    74%

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

  • Ps 143:3
    73%

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

  • Job 10:18
    73%

    18Why then did You bring me out of the womb? I wish I had died and no eye had seen me.

  • Job 37:19
    73%

    19Teach us what we should say to Him, for we cannot present our case because of the darkness.

  • Job 6:10
    73%

    10It would still be my comfort— I would even exult in the midst of unrelenting pain— for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

  • Job 12:22
    73%

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

  • Job 14:13
    72%

    13If only you would hide me in the grave and conceal me till your anger has passed! If you would set me a time and then remember me!

  • Job 18:6
    72%

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

  • Lam 3:17
    72%

    17My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is.

  • Job 6:13
    72%

    13Indeed, there is no help in me, and ability has been driven from me.

  • Job 28:3
    72%

    3Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out to the farthest limits for ore buried in deep darkness.