Job 37:19

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

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  • Job 12:3 : 3 "But I too have a mind as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know things such as these?"
  • Job 13:3 : 3 But I desire to speak to the Almighty, and I wish to reason with God.
  • Job 13:6 : 6 Listen now to my argument and pay attention to the contentions of my lips.
  • Job 26:14 : 14 Behold, these are but the edges of his ways, and how faint is the whisper we hear of him! But the thunder of his power—who can understand?
  • Job 28:20-21 : 20 But where does wisdom come from, and where is the place of understanding? 21 It is hidden from the eyes of every living thing and concealed from the birds of the sky.
  • Job 38:2 : 2 Who is this that darkens counsel with words without knowledge?
  • Job 42:3 : 3 You asked, 'Who is this that obscures counsel without knowledge?' Surely, I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.
  • Ps 73:16-17 : 16 When I tried to understand all this, it troubled me deeply. 17 Until I entered the sanctuary of God; then I understood their final destiny.
  • Ps 73:22 : 22 I was senseless and ignorant; I was like a beast before You.
  • Ps 139:6 : 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
  • Prov 30:2-4 : 2 Surely I am more ignorant than anyone, and I lack human understanding. 3 I have not learned wisdom, nor do I have knowledge of the Holy One. 4 Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in his hands? Who has wrapped the waters in a cloak? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is the name of his son? Surely you know!
  • 1 Cor 13:12 : 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
  • 1 John 3:2 : 2 Beloved, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. But we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.

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  • 20 Should it be told to Him that I would speak? Or should a man say that he would be swallowed up?

  • Job 38:19-20
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    19 Where is the way that light dwells, and where is the place of darkness,

    20 that you may take it to its boundary and recognize the paths to its home?

  • 13 But you say, 'What does God know? Can He judge through such thick darkness?'

  • 2 Who is this that darkens counsel with words without knowledge?

  • 22 A land of gloom like deep darkness, a land of shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.

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

  • 18 Can you spread out the skies with Him, as firm as a molten mirror?

  • Isa 59:9-10
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    9 Therefore, justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but behold, there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom.

    10 We grope along the wall like the blind; we grope as if we had no eyes. At midday, we stumble as if it were twilight; among the strong, we are like the dead.

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

  • 9 What do you know that we do not know? What insight do you have that is not with us?

  • Job 8:9-10
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    9 for we were only born yesterday and know nothing, and our days on earth are but a shadow.

    10 Will they not instruct you and tell you? Will they not bring forth words from their understanding?

  • 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.

  • Ps 139:11-12
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    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 38:34-35
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    34 Can you raise your voice to the clouds and cover yourself with a flood of water?

    35 Can you send forth lightning bolts and have them go? Do they report to you, 'Here we are'?

  • Job 3:4-6
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    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.

    6 As 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 42:3-4
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    3 You asked, 'Who is this that obscures counsel without knowledge?' Surely, I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.

    4 You said, 'Listen now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you shall inform Me.'

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 19 Our hearts have not turned back, nor have our steps strayed from Your path.

  • 24 Teach me, and I will be silent; help me understand where I have gone astray.

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

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

  • 24 What is the way to the place where the light is divided, or the east wind scattered over the earth?

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

  • 3 May the LORD your God tell us the way we should walk and the thing we should do."

  • 12 Our God, will you not judge them? For we have no power to face this vast army coming against us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you.

  • 3 Why are we regarded as animals and considered unclean in your eyes?

  • 32 'Teach me what I cannot see; if I have done wrong, I will not do it again.'

  • 12 Teach us to number our days carefully, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

  • 15 Do you know how God orders them and how He causes the lightning of His clouds to shine?

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

  • 3 How have you advised without wisdom and provided abundant insight?

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

  • 5 I would know the words he would answer me with and understand what he would say to me.

  • 11 Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky.