Job 19:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

He has fenced up my way so that I cannot pass, and He has set darkness in my paths.

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  • Job 3:23 : 23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?
  • Lam 3:7 : 7 He has hedged me in so I cannot get out; He has made my chain heavy.
  • Lam 3:9 : 9 He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.
  • Hos 2:6 : 6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and make a wall, so she shall not find her paths.
  • John 8:12 : 12 Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, I am the light of the world: he who follows me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
  • Job 30:26 : 26 When I looked for good, then evil came to me; and when I waited for light, darkness came.
  • Ps 88:8 : 8 You have put my acquaintance far from me; you have made me an abomination to them. I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
  • Prov 4:19 : 19 The way of the wicked is like darkness: they do not know at what they stumble.
  • Isa 50:10 : 10 Who among you fears the LORD, who obeys the voice of his servant, who walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the name of the LORD, and rely upon his God.
  • Jer 13:16 : 16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.
  • Jer 23:12 : 12 Therefore their way shall be to them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall in it; for I will bring disaster upon them, the year of their punishment, says the LORD.
  • Josh 24:7 : 7 And when they cried to the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and you lived in the wilderness for a long time.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lam 3:5-9
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    86%

    5He has built against me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

    6He has set me in dark places, like those long dead.

    7He has hedged me in so I cannot get out; He has made my chain heavy.

    8Even when I cry and shout, He shuts out my prayer.

    9He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.

  • Job 19:9-13
    5 verses
    81%

    9He has stripped me of my glory and taken the crown from my head.

    10He has destroyed me on every side, and I am gone; and my hope He has removed like a tree.

    11He has also kindled His wrath against me and counts me as one of His enemies.

    12His troops come together and raise up their way against me, and encamp around my tent.

    13He has put my brothers far from me, and my acquaintances are truly estranged from me.

  • Lam 3:2-3
    2 verses
    81%

    2He has led me and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

    3Surely against me He is turned; He turns His hand against me all day long.

  • Lam 3:11
    79%

    11He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.

  • Job 19:6-7
    2 verses
    79%

    6Know now that God has overthrown me and has surrounded me with His net.

    7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard; I cry aloud, but there is no justice.

  • Job 23:17
    79%

    17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, nor has he covered the darkness from my face.

  • Job 33:10-11
    2 verses
    78%

    10Behold, He finds occasions against me, He counts me as His enemy;

    11He puts my feet in the stocks, He marks all my paths.

  • Job 3:23
    76%

    23Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?

  • Job 38:19
    76%

    19Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And as for darkness, where is its place,

  • Job 29:3
    76%

    3When His lamp shone upon my head, and by His light I walked through darkness;

  • Job 38:10
    76%

    10And fixed My limit for it, and set bars and doors,

  • Job 30:19
    75%

    19He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

  • Job 23:8-9
    2 verses
    75%

    8Behold, I go forward, but he is not there, and backward, but I cannot perceive him.

    9On the left hand where he works, but I cannot behold him; he hides himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him.

  • Job 30:13
    75%

    13They mar my path, they advance my calamity, they have no helper.

  • Lam 1:13
    75%

    13From above he has sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them: he has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: he has made me desolate and faint all the day.

  • Ps 88:8
    75%

    8You have put my acquaintance far from me; you have made me an abomination to them. I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

  • Ps 139:11
    75%

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

  • Job 18:6-7
    2 verses
    74%

    6The light shall be dark in his dwelling, and his lamp shall be put out with him.

    7The steps of his strength shall be shortened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

  • Ps 143:3
    74%

    3For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me dwell in darkness, like those long dead.

  • Job 9:17-18
    2 verses
    74%

    17For He crushes me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.

    18He will not allow me to regain my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

  • Ps 142:3
    74%

    3When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then You knew my path. In the way where I walked, they secretly laid a snare for me.

  • Prov 4:19
    74%

    19The way of the wicked is like darkness: they do not know at what they stumble.

  • Job 22:11
    73%

    11Or darkness, that you cannot see; and an abundance of waters covers you.

  • Job 17:12-13
    2 verses
    73%

    12They change the night into day; the light is near because of darkness.

    13If I wait, the grave is my house; I have made my bed in the darkness.

  • Isa 59:9
    73%

    9Therefore justice is far from us, nor does righteousness overtake us: we wait for light, but see obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

  • Job 10:21-22
    2 verses
    73%

    21Before I go to the place from which I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

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

  • Ps 18:28
    73%

    28For you will light my lamp: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.

  • Job 9:11
    73%

    11Lo, He passes by me, and I see Him not: He goes by also, but I do not perceive Him.

  • Job 22:14
    73%

    14Thick clouds are a covering to Him, so that He does not see; and He walks on the circuit of heaven.'

  • Job 3:9
    73%

    9Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it look for light, but have none; nor let it see the breaking of dawn:

  • Ps 18:11
    72%

    11He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion around him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

  • Job 3:5
    72%

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

  • Job 18:18
    72%

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

  • Job 31:4
    72%

    4Does He not see my ways, and count all my steps?