Job 24:17

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

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  • Job 3:5 : 5 Let darkness and deep shadow claim it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let blackness of the day terrify it.
  • Ps 73:18-19 : 18 Surely, You place them on slippery ground; You cast them down to destruction. 19 How suddenly they are destroyed, completely swept away by terrors!
  • Jer 2:26 : 26 As a thief is ashamed when caught, so the house of Israel is put to shame—they, their kings, their officials, their priests, and their prophets.
  • 2 Cor 5:10-11 : 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad. 11 Since we know what it means to fear the Lord, we try to persuade others. What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your conscience.
  • Rev 6:16-17 : 16 And they said to the mountains and the rocks, 'Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one seated on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb!' 17 For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can withstand it?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 24:13-16
    4 verses
    87%

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

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

    15The adulterer waits for twilight, saying, 'No one will see me,' and he disguises his face.

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

  • Job 5:14
    80%

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

  • Job 10:21-22
    2 verses
    79%

    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 17:12-13
    2 verses
    79%

    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 3:4-6
    3 verses
    79%

    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.

  • Isa 17:14
    78%

    14In 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.

  • Job 4:20
    76%

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

  • Job 34:22
    76%

    22There is no darkness or deep shadow where evildoers can hide themselves.

  • Job 24:18
    76%

    18Swift upon the surface of the waters they are; their portion is cursed in the land; they do not turn to the way of the vineyards.

  • Prov 4:19
    76%

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

  • Isa 8:22
    74%

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

  • Prov 4:16
    74%

    16For they cannot rest until they do evil; they are robbed of sleep until they make someone stumble.

  • Isa 28:19
    74%

    19As often as it passes through, it will seize you. Morning after morning, day and night, it will pass through. The understanding of this message will bring only terror.

  • Job 12:22
    74%

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

  • Isa 5:30
    74%

    30On 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.

  • Amos 5:20
    73%

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

  • Job 3:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

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

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

  • Jer 13:16
    73%

    16Give 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.

  • Job 15:23-24
    2 verses
    73%

    23He wanders about for food, asking, 'Where is it?' He knows that the day of darkness is ready at hand.

    24Distress and anguish terrify him; they overpower him like a king prepared for battle.

  • Job 34:20
    73%

    20In a moment, they die; at midnight, people are shaken and pass away, and the mighty are removed without human intervention.

  • Ps 73:19
    73%

    19How suddenly they are destroyed, completely swept away by terrors!

  • Job 12:25
    73%

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

  • Job 22:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

    10That is why snares are all around you, and sudden terror overwhelms you.

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

  • Zeph 1:15
    72%

    15That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of devastation and desolation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness.

  • Prov 7:9
    72%

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

  • Job 27:20
    72%

    20Terrors overtake him like a flood; in the night a storm sweeps him away.

  • Mic 2:1
    72%

    1Woe to those who devise wickedness and plan evil on their beds! At dawn, they carry it out because they have the power to do it.

  • Ps 107:10
    72%

    10Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in misery and chains.

  • Job 18:6
    72%

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

  • Ps 139:12
    72%

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

  • Job 18:18
    72%

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

  • Lam 3:6
    72%

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

  • Job 18:20
    72%

    20Those who come after are appalled at his fate, and those before are seized with horror.

  • Ps 49:14
    72%

    14This is their fate, their foolish confidence. And yet, after them, people approve their words. Selah.

  • Ps 143:3
    72%

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

  • Ps 55:15
    71%

    15We used to share close communion together; we walked with the crowd in the house of God.

  • Job 34:25
    71%

    25Because He knows their deeds, He overturns them in the night, and they are crushed.

  • Mic 3:6
    71%

    6Therefore 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 28:3
    71%

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

  • Prov 24:22
    71%

    22For suddenly their calamity will rise, and who knows the ruin of both of them?