Job 3:4

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

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  • Exod 10:22-23 : 22 So Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and thick darkness covered all Egypt for three days. 23 No one could see anyone else or move from their place for three days. But all the Israelites had light where they lived.
  • Deut 11:12 : 12 It is a land the LORD your God cares for; His eyes are always upon it from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.
  • Joel 2:2 : 2 It is a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness. Like the dawn spreading over the mountains, a great and mighty army comes, unlike any seen before, and none will be seen again for generations to follow.
  • Amos 5:18 : 18 Woe to you who long for the day of the Lord! Why do you desire it? The day of the Lord will be darkness and not light.
  • Matt 27:45 : 45 From noon until three in the afternoon, darkness came over all the land.
  • Acts 27:20 : 20 When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and the storm continued to rage, all hope of being saved was finally abandoned.
  • Rev 16:10 : 10 The fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was plunged into darkness. People gnawed their tongues in agony,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 3:5-10
    6 verses
    89%

    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.

    7Behold, let that night be barren; let no joyful voice enter it.

    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.

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

  • Job 3:3
    83%

    3Let the day perish on which I was born, and the night that said, 'A man is conceived.'

  • Amos 5:20
    80%

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

  • Job 18:5-6
    2 verses
    76%

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

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

  • Job 23:17
    76%

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

  • Job 10:20-22
    3 verses
    75%

    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.

  • Jer 20:14
    75%

    14Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother gave birth to me not be blessed.

  • Job 17:12-13
    2 verses
    74%

    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,

  • Lam 3:2
    74%

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

  • Job 34:22
    74%

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

  • Ps 139:11-12
    2 verses
    73%

    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 38:19
    73%

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

  • Job 10:3
    73%

    3Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands, while You favor the plans of the wicked?

  • Zeph 1:15
    73%

    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.

  • Job 18:18
    73%

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

  • Job 22:11
    73%

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

  • Isa 13:10
    73%

    10The 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.

  • Job 3:16
    73%

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

  • Job 3:23
    73%

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

  • Job 36:20
    73%

    20Do not long for the night, when people are taken from their place.

  • Job 36:32
    72%

    32He covers His hands with the lightning and commands it to strike its target.

  • Ps 109:12
    72%

    12Let there be no one to show him kindness, and no one to be gracious to his fatherless children.

  • Job 19:8
    72%

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

  • Zech 14:6
    72%

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

  • Mic 3:6
    72%

    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.

  • Jer 20:16
    72%

    16May that man be like the cities the LORD overthrew without relenting. May he hear cries of distress in the morning and shouts of alarm at noon.

  • Job 29:3
    72%

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

  • Job 5:14
    72%

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

  • Eccl 6:4
    72%

    4For it comes in vain and departs in darkness, and its name is covered in darkness.

  • Amos 5:18
    72%

    18Woe to you who long for the day of the Lord! Why do you desire it? The day of the Lord will be darkness and not light.

  • Job 24:16-17
    2 verses
    72%

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

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

  • Amos 8:9
    71%

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

  • Ezek 32:8
    71%

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

  • Jer 13:16
    71%

    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 3:20
    71%

    20Why is light given to those in misery, and life to the bitter in soul?

  • Job 9:34
    71%

    34Let Him remove His rod from me, and let His terror not frighten me.

  • Ps 143:3
    71%

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

  • Lam 3:6
    71%

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

  • Job 20:26
    70%

    26Total darkness is hidden for his treasures; a fire not kindled by man will consume him and devour what remains in his tent.