Job 23:17

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 19:8 : 8 He has fenced up my way so that I cannot pass, and He has set darkness in my paths.
  • Job 22:11 : 11 Or darkness, that you cannot see; and an abundance of waters covers you.
  • Isa 57:1 : 1 The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.
  • 2 Kgs 22:20 : 20 Behold therefore, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered into your grave in peace; and your eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again.
  • Job 6:9 : 9 Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!
  • Job 15:22 : 22 He does not believe that he shall return out of darkness, and he is marked for the sword.
  • Job 18:6 : 6 The light shall be dark in his dwelling, and his lamp shall be put out with him.
  • Job 18:18 : 18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 19:7-9
    3 verses
    79%

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

    8He has fenced up my way so that I cannot pass, and He has set darkness in my paths.

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

  • Job 29:3-4
    2 verses
    78%

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

    4As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tent;

  • Lam 3:2
    77%

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

  • Job 23:15-16
    2 verses
    77%

    15Therefore I am troubled at his presence; when I consider, I am afraid of him.

    16For God makes my heart faint, and the Almighty troubles me.

  • Ps 139:11-12
    2 verses
    76%

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

    12Yes, the darkness does not hide from You, but the night shines as the day; the darkness and the light are both alike to You.

  • Job 10:20-22
    3 verses
    76%

    20Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

    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.

  • Job 3:4-6
    3 verses
    76%

    4Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, nor let the light shine upon it.

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

    6As for that night, let darkness seize it; let it not be included among the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

  • Job 3:16
    76%

    16Or as a hidden untimely birth I would not have existed; like infants who never saw light.

  • Job 3:9-10
    2 verses
    75%

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

    10Because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide sorrow from my eyes.

  • Job 23:7-9
    3 verses
    75%

    7There the righteous might dispute with him, so I would be delivered forever from my judge.

    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 17:11-13
    3 verses
    75%

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

    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.

  • Job 3:23
    75%

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

  • Job 22:11
    75%

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

  • Lam 3:6-7
    2 verses
    75%

    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.

  • Job 13:24
    74%

    24Why do you hide your face, and hold me as your enemy?

  • Ps 31:22
    74%

    22For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before your eyes: nevertheless you heard the voice of my supplications when I cried to you.

  • Job 16:16-17
    2 verses
    74%

    16My face is flushed with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

    17Not for any injustice in my hands; also, my prayer is pure.

  • Jer 17:16
    74%

    16As for me, I have not hastened from being a shepherd to follow you: neither have I desired the woeful day; you know: that which came out of my lips was right before you.

  • Job 31:23
    74%

    23For destruction from God was a terror to me, and because of His majesty I could not endure.

  • Job 13:20
    74%

    20Only do not do two things to me, then I will not hide myself from you.

  • Ps 18:28
    74%

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

  • Job 17:7
    74%

    7My eye also is dim because of sorrow, and all my members are like a shadow.

  • 2 Sam 22:29
    74%

    29For you are my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.

  • Job 38:19
    74%

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

  • Ps 143:3
    73%

    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 10:18
    73%

    18Why then have You brought me forth out of the womb? Oh, that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!

  • Job 37:19
    73%

    19Teach us what we shall say to him, for we cannot arrange our speech because of darkness.

  • Job 6:10
    73%

    10Then I should still have comfort; yes, I would harden myself in sorrow. Let him not spare, for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.

  • Job 12:22
    73%

    22He reveals deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.

  • Job 14:13
    72%

    13Oh that You would hide me in the grave, that You would keep me secret, until Your wrath is past, that You would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

  • Job 18:6
    72%

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

  • Lam 3:17
    72%

    17You have moved my soul far from peace; I forgot prosperity.

  • Job 6:13
    72%

    13Is not my help within me? And is wisdom driven quite from me?

  • Job 28:3
    72%

    3He sets an end to darkness, and searches out all perfection: the stones of darkness and the shadow of death.