Job 23:17

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Because I am not cut of before the darkenesse, neither hath he couered the cloude fro my face.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 19:8 : 8 He hath hedged vp my way that I can not passe, and he hath set darkenesse in my pathes.
  • Job 22:11 : 11 Shouldest thou then see no darknesse? shoulde not the water fludde run ouer thee?
  • Isa 57:1 : 1 The ryghteous perisheth, and no man regardeth it in his heart: good godly people are taken away, & no man considereth it, namely, that the righteous is conueyed away from the wicked.
  • 2 Kgs 22:20 : 20 Beholde therefore I wyll receaue thee vnto thy fathers, and thou shalt be put into thy graue in peace, and thyne eyes shall not see all the euill which I wyll bryng vpon this place. And they brought the king worde againe.
  • Job 6:9 : 9 O that God would begin and smite me, that he would let his hand go and take me cleane away:
  • Job 15:22 : 22 He beleueth neuer to be deliuered out of darknesse: for the sworde is alwayes before his eyes.
  • Job 18:6 : 6 The light shall be darke in his dwelling, and his candle shall be put out with him.
  • Job 18:18 : 18 They shall driue him from the light into darkenesse, and chaste him cleane out of the worlde.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 19:7-9
    3 verses
    79%

    7If I complaine of the violence that is done vnto me, I cannot be heard: and if I crye, there is no sentence geuen with me.

    8He hath hedged vp my way that I can not passe, and he hath set darkenesse in my pathes.

    9He hath spoyled me of myne honour, and taken the crowne away from my head.

  • Job 29:3-4
    2 verses
    78%

    3When his light shined vpon my head, when I went after the same light and shining, euen through the darknesse:

    4As it stoode with me when I was young, when God prospered my house:

  • Lam 3:2
    77%

    2He droue me foorth and led me, yea into darknesse, but not into light.

  • Job 23:15-16
    2 verses
    77%

    15This is the cause that I shrinke at his presence, so that when I consider him, I am afrayde of hym.

    16For God maketh my heart softe, and the almightie putteth me in feare.

  • Ps 139:11-12
    2 verses
    76%

    11And yf I say peraduenture the darknesse shall couer me: and the night shalbe day for me,

    12Truely the darknesse shall not darken any thing from thee, and the night shalbe as lyghtsome as the day: darknesse and lyght to thee are both a lyke.

  • Job 10:20-22
    3 verses
    76%

    20Are not my dayes fewe? Let him then leaue of fro me, and let me a lone, that I may comfort my selfe a litle,

    21Afore I go thyther from whence I shall not turne againe, euen to the lande of darknesse and shadowe of death:

    22Yea a lande as darke as darknesse it selfe, and into the shadowe of death where is none order, but the light is there as darknesse.

  • Job 3:4-6
    3 verses
    76%

    4The same day be turned to darknesse, and not regarded of God from aboue, neither let the light shyne vpon it:

    5But let it be stayned with darknesse and the shadowe of death, let the dimme cloude fall vpon it, whiche may make it terrible as a most bitter day.

    6Let the darke storme ouercome that night, and let it not be ioyned vnto the dayes of the yere, nor counted in the number of the monethes.

  • Job 3:16
    76%

    16Or why was not I hyd, as a thing borne out of tune, either as young children which neuer sawe the light?

  • Job 3:9-10
    2 verses
    75%

    9Let the starres of that night be dimme thorowe darkenesse of it, let it loke for light, but haue none, neither let it see the dawning of the day:

    10Because it shut not vp the doores of my mothers wombe, nor hyd sorowe from myne eyes.

  • Job 23:7-9
    3 verses
    75%

    7There the righteous might dispute with him, so shoulde I be deliuered for euer from my iudge.

    8Behold, though I go forwarde I find him not: If I go backwarde, I can get no knowledge of hym:

    9If I go on the left side where he doth his worke, I can not attayne vnto him: Againe, if I go on the right side, he hydeth him selfe that I can not see hym.

  • Job 17:11-13
    3 verses
    75%

    11My dayes are past, and my counsailes and thoughtes of my heart are vanished away,

    12Chaunging the night into day, and the light approching into darkenesse.

    13Though I tary neuer so much, yet the graue is my house, & I haue made my bed in the darke.

  • Job 3:23
    75%

    23From whom their endes are hyd, and consealed by God?

  • Job 22:11
    75%

    11Shouldest thou then see no darknesse? shoulde not the water fludde run ouer thee?

  • Lam 3:6-7
    2 verses
    75%

    6He hath set me in darknesse, as they that be dead for euer.

    7He hath so hedged me in, that I can not get out, and hath layde heauie linkes vpon me.

  • Job 13:24
    74%

    24Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thyne enemie?

  • Ps 31:22
    74%

    22And when I fled with al haste, I said I am cast out of the sight of thine eyes: neuerthelesse, thou heardest the voyce of my prayer when I cryed vnto thee.

  • Job 16:16-17
    2 verses
    74%

    16My face is withered with weeping, & in mine eyes is the shadowe of death.

    17Howbeit there is no wickednesse in my handes, but my prayer is cleane.

  • Jer 17:16
    74%

    16Wheras I neuerthelesse obediently folowed thee as a sheephearde, & haue not vncalled taken this office vpon me, this knowest thou well: my wordes also were ryght before thee.

  • Job 31:23
    74%

    23For I haue euer feared the vengeaunce and punishment of God, and knewe very well that I was not able to beare his burthen.

  • Job 13:20
    74%

    20Neuerthelesse, graunt me two thinges, and then wyll I not hide my selfe from thee:

  • Ps 18:28
    74%

    28Thou also hast lyghtened my candell: God my Lorde hath made my darknesse to be lyght.

  • Job 17:7
    74%

    7Myne eye is dimme for very heauinesse, and all my strength is lyke a shadowe.

  • 2 Sam 22:29
    74%

    29For thou art my lyght, O Lorde: and the Lorde shall light my darkenesse.

  • Job 38:19
    74%

    19Then shewe me the way where light dwelleth, & where is the place of darkenesse?

  • Ps 143:3
    73%

    3For the enemie hath persecuted my soule, he hath smitten my lyfe downe to the grounde: he hath layde me in darknesse as men that haue ben long dead.

  • Job 10:18
    73%

    18Wherfore hast thou brought me out of the wombe? O that I had perished, and that no eye had seene me,

  • Job 37:19
    73%

    19Teache vs what we shall saye vnto him: for we are vnmeete to frame our talke because of darkenesse.

  • Job 6:10
    73%

    10Then shoulde I haue some comfort, yea I woulde desire him in my payne that he would not spare, for I wil not be against the wordes of the holy one.

  • Job 12:22
    73%

    22Loke what lyeth hid in darkenesse he declareth it openly, and the very shadowe of death bringeth he to light.

  • Job 14:13
    72%

    13O that thou wouldest hide me in the graue, & keepe me secret vntyl thy wrath were past, and to appoynt me a time wherein thou mightest remember me.

  • Job 18:6
    72%

    6The light shall be darke in his dwelling, and his candle shall be put out with him.

  • Lam 3:17
    72%

    17He hath put my soule out of rest, I forget all good thinges.

  • Job 6:13
    72%

    13Is it not so that there is in me no helpe? & that my substaunce is taken from me?

  • Job 28:3
    72%

    3The darkenesse shall once come to an ende: he can seke out the grounde of all thinges, the stones, the darke, and the shadowe of death.