Job 29:3

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

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  • Ps 18:28 : 28 You save a humble people, but You bring low those whose eyes are haughty.
  • Job 18:6 : 6 The light in his tent will grow dark, and the lamp above him will be extinguished.
  • 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."
  • John 12:46 : 46 I have come into the world as light, so that everyone who believes in Me will not remain in darkness.
  • Eph 5:8 : 8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light.
  • Eph 5:14 : 14 Therefore it says, "Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."
  • Job 11:17 : 17 Your life will shine brighter than noonday; its darkness will be like the morning.
  • Isa 2:4 : 4 He will judge between the nations and settle disputes for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they learn war anymore.
  • Job 22:28 : 28 Whatever you decide will succeed, and light will shine on your ways.
  • Ps 84:11 : 11 For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather stand at the threshold of the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness.
  • Prov 13:9 : 9 The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.
  • Prov 20:20 : 20 Whoever curses their father or mother, their lamp will be extinguished in utter darkness.
  • Prov 24:20 : 20 For the wicked have no future; the light of the wicked will be snuffed out.
  • Ps 4:6 : 6 Offer right sacrifices and trust in the LORD.
  • Job 21:17 : 17 How often is the lamp of the wicked extinguished? Disaster comes upon them as calamities God apportions in his anger.
  • Ps 23:4 : 4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
  • Ps 27:1 : 1 The Lord is my light and my salvation—whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life—of whom shall I be afraid?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 29:4-7
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    83%

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

    5 The Almighty was still with me, and my children surrounded me.

    6 My steps were bathed in cream, and the rock poured out streams of oil for me.

    7 When I went out to the city gate, and took my seat in the public square,

  • Ps 18:28
    80%

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

  • Lam 3:1-2
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    80%

    1 I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of His wrath.

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

  • 2 Sam 22:29
    79%

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

  • Job 31:26
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    26 if I have looked at the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,

  • Job 29:2
    79%

    2 Oh, that I were as in the months gone by, as in the days when God watched over me,

  • Ps 139:11-12
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    79%

    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 23:17
    78%

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

  • Job 18:5-6
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    78%

    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 19:8-9
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    76%

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

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

  • Job 30:26
    75%

    26 But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness came.

  • Job 38:19
    75%

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

  • Lam 3:6-7
    2 verses
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    6 He has made me dwell in dark places, like those long dead.

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

  • Job 3:23
    74%

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

  • Mic 7:8
    72%

    8 Do not rejoice over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will rise. Though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light.

  • Job 10:21-22
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    72%

    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 17:12-13
    2 verses
    72%

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

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

  • Ps 142:3
    72%

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

  • Job 3:4-5
    2 verses
    72%

    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.

  • Job 28:3
    72%

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

  • Job 3:9
    72%

    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 3:16
    72%

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

  • Lam 3:9
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    9 He has blocked my ways with cut stone; He has made my paths crooked.

  • Job 17:7
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    7 My eyes have grown dim from grief, and all my limbs are like a shadow.

  • Job 11:17
    72%

    17 Your life will shine brighter than noonday; its darkness will be like the morning.

  • Ps 143:3
    71%

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

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    3 Is there any number to His armies? Upon whom does His light not rise?

  • 2 Sam 22:13
    71%

    13 From the brightness of his presence, coals of fire blazed forth.

  • Eccl 12:2
    71%

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

  • Jer 13:16
    71%

    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.

  • Dan 2:22
    71%

    22 He reveals deep and hidden things; He knows what is in the darkness, and light dwells with Him.

  • Prov 13:9
    71%

    9 The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.

  • Job 29:11
    71%

    11 For when the ear heard me, it called me blessed, and when the eye saw me, it gave testimony about me.

  • Job 7:3
    71%

    3 so I have been allotted months of futility, and nights of misery have been assigned to me.

  • Job 37:19
    71%

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

  • Job 12:22
    71%

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

  • Ps 43:3
    71%

    3 Send Your light and Your truth; let them lead me. Let them bring me to Your holy mountain and to Your dwelling place.

  • Eccl 2:13
    71%

    13 I saw that wisdom is better than folly, just as light is better than darkness.