Job 3:5

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

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  • Job 10:21-22 : 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.
  • 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.
  • Job 28:3 : 3 Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out to the farthest limits for ore buried in deep darkness.
  • Isa 9:2 : 2 You have multiplied the nation and increased their joy; they rejoice before you as people rejoice at the harvest, as warriors rejoice when dividing the plunder.
  • 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 2:6 : 6 They did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD, who brought us up out of Egypt and led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and ravines, a land of drought and deep darkness, a land where no one travels and no one lives?’
  • Job 38:17 : 17 Have the gates of death been shown to you? Have you seen the gates of deepest darkness?
  • Job 24:17 : 17 For to them, the morning is like deep darkness; they are familiar with the terrors of the shadow of death.
  • Matt 4:16 : 16 The people who sat in darkness have seen a great light, and for those who were sitting in the region and shadow of death, light has dawned upon them.
  • Luke 1:79 : 79 to shine on those who live in darkness and the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
  • Heb 12:18 : 18 For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched, that is burning with fire, to darkness, gloom, and a storm,
  • Deut 4:11 : 11 You approached and stood at the foot of the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire up to the very heavens, with darkness, cloud, and thick gloom.
  • Job 16:16 : 16 My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death.
  • Ps 44:19 : 19 Our hearts have not turned back, nor have our steps strayed from Your path.
  • Ps 107:10 : 10 Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in misery and chains.
  • Ps 107:14 : 14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death and broke their chains apart.
  • Jer 4:28 : 28 Because of this, the earth will mourn, and the heavens above will grow dark. For I have spoken, I have purposed, and I will not relent or turn back from it.
  • Ezek 30:3 : 3 For the day is near, the day of the Lord is near. A day of clouds, a time of doom for the nations.
  • Ezek 34:12 : 12 As a shepherd looks after his scattered sheep when he is with them, so I will look after My flock. I will rescue them from all the places where they were scattered on a day of clouds and darkness.
  • 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 5:8 : 8 He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns deep darkness into morning and darkens day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the surface of the earth—the Lord is his name.
  • Amos 8:10 : 10 'I will turn your festivals into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will cover everyone's waists with sackcloth and shave every head bald. I will make it like mourning for an only son and its end like a bitter day.'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 3:6-9
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    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.

  • Job 3:3-4
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    3Let the day perish on which I was born, and the night that said, 'A man is conceived.'

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

  • Job 10:21-22
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    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.

  • Amos 5:20
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    20Won’t the day of the Lord be darkness and not light, gloom with no brightness in it?

  • Job 24:16-17
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    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.

  • Job 18:5-6
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    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 22:11
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    11It is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of waters covers you.

  • Job 17:12-13
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    76%

    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,

  • Zeph 1:15
    76%

    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.

  • Ps 143:3
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    3For the enemy has pursued me, crushing my life to the ground and making me dwell in darkness, like those long dead.

  • Job 5:14
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    14They encounter darkness by day and grope in the noonday as if it were night.

  • Job 34:22
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    22There is no darkness or deep shadow where evildoers can hide themselves.

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

  • Jer 13:16
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    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.

  • Isa 5:30
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    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.

  • Job 20:26
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    26Total darkness is hidden for his treasures; a fire not kindled by man will consume him and devour what remains in his tent.

  • Job 23:17
    74%

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

  • Ps 139:11-12
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    74%

    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.

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

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

  • Job 28:3
    74%

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

  • Mic 3:6
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    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.

  • Isa 50:3
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    3I clothe the heavens with darkness and make sackcloth their covering.

  • Ezek 32:8
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    8All the shining lights in the sky I will darken over you, and I will bring darkness over your land, declares the Lord GOD.

  • Ps 35:6
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    6Let their way be dark and slippery, as the angel of the Lord pursues them.

  • Job 12:22
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    22He reveals the deep things from darkness and brings deep shadows into the light.

  • Joel 3:15
    73%

    15The sun and moon will grow dark, and the stars will withdraw their brightness.

  • Ps 69:23
    73%

    23Let their table before them become a snare, and their security a trap.

  • Ps 18:11
    73%

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

  • Isa 8:22
    73%

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

  • Ps 55:15
    73%

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

  • Job 38:19
    73%

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

  • Job 19:8
    72%

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

  • Isa 13:10
    72%

    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.

  • 2 Sam 22:12
    72%

    12He made darkness his covering around him, dense clouds of water and thick clouds of the skies.

  • 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.

  • Eccl 8:13
    72%

    13But it will not go well for the wicked, nor will they prolong their days like a shadow, because they do not fear God.

  • Job 38:13
    72%

    13that it might take hold of the edges of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?

  • Job 37:19
    72%

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

  • Amos 8:9
    72%

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

  • Job 9:34
    72%

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