Job 17:12

Authorized King James Version (1611)

They change the night into day: the light [is] short because of darkness.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 28:67 : 67 In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
  • Job 7:3-4 : 3 So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. 4 When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
  • Job 7:13-14 : 13 When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint; 14 Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:
  • Job 24:14-16 : 14 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief. 15 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth [his] face. 16 In the dark they dig through houses, [which] they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

  • Job 24:16-17
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    79%

    16In the dark they dig through houses, [which] they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

    17For the morning [is] to them even as the shadow of death: if [one] know [them, they are in] the terrors of the shadow of death.

  • 11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, [even] the thoughts of my heart.

  • 13If I wait, the grave [is] mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.

  • Ps 139:11-12
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    78%

    11If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.

    12Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light [are] both alike [to thee].

  • Job 10:21-22
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    77%

    21Before I go [whence] I shall not return, [even] to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

    22A land of darkness, as darkness [itself; and] of the shadow of death, without any order, and [where] the light [is] as darkness.

  • Job 3:4-6
    3 verses
    76%

    4Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.

    5Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

    6As [for] that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

  • 20[Shall] not the day of the LORD [be] darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

  • Job 24:13-14
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    75%

    13¶ They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

    14The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

  • Job 18:5-6
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    75%

    5¶ Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

    6The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.

  • Job 3:8-9
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    8Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.

    9Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but [have] none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:

  • 17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, [neither] hath he covered the darkness from my face.

  • 22He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.

  • Eccl 12:2-3
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    74%

    2While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:

    3In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,

  • 19The way of the wicked [is] as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.

  • 16Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, [and] make [it] gross darkness.

  • 9In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:

  • 19Where [is] the way [where] light dwelleth? and [as for] darkness, where [is] the place thereof,

  • 14And behold at eveningtide trouble; [and] before the morning he [is] not. This [is] the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.

  • 2He hath led me, and brought [me into] darkness, but not [into] light.

  • 22And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and [they shall be] driven to darkness.

  • 12The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

  • 25They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like [a] drunken [man].

  • 16The day [is] thine, the night also [is] thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

  • 20Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep [forth].

  • 6And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the light shall not be clear, [nor] dark:

  • 30And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if [one] look unto the land, behold darkness [and] sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.

  • 6Therefore night [shall be] unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.

  • 8¶ He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

  • 8All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD.

  • 6He hath set me in dark places, as [they that be] dead of old.

  • 7Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members [are] as a shadow.

  • 3When his candle shined upon my head, [and when] by his light I walked [through] darkness;

  • 9And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:

  • 28For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.

  • 10For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.

  • 15The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.

  • 20They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding [it].

  • 35Then Jesus said unto them, ‹Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.›

  • 4When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.

  • 10‹But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.›