Job 3:9

Authorized King James Version (1611)

Let 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:

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 41:18 : 18 By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes [are] like the eyelids of the morning.
  • Jer 8:15 : 15 We looked for peace, but no good [came; and] for a time of health, and behold trouble!
  • Jer 13:16 : 16 Give 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.
  • Job 30:26 : 26 When I looked for good, then evil came [unto me]: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 3:3-8
    6 verses
    87%

    3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night [in which] it was said, There is a man child conceived.

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

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

    6 As [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.

    7 Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.

    8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.

  • 10 For 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.

  • 10 Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother's] womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

  • Job 18:5-6
    2 verses
    76%

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

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

  • Eccl 12:2-3
    2 verses
    76%

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

    3 In 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,

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

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

  • Job 10:21-22
    2 verses
    75%

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

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

  • 5 Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.

  • Job 17:12-13
    2 verses
    75%

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

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

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

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

  • 16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants [which] never saw light.

  • 6 Therefore 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.

  • 7 Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.

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

  • Job 24:16-17
    2 verses
    73%

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

    17 For 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.

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

  • 11 Or darkness, [that] thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.

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

  • 18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

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

  • 23 [Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?

  • 20 Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.

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

  • Ps 139:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

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

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

  • 20 ¶ Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter [in] soul;

  • 9 ¶ Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, [but] we walk in darkness.

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

  • 18 Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!

  • 30 And 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.

  • 26 When I looked for good, then evil came [unto me]: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

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

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

  • 9 And 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:

  • 17 And [thine] age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.

  • 4 For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

  • 16 Give 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.

  • 23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, [it was] without form, and void; and the heavens, and they [had] no light.