Job 17:12
These men change night into day; they say,‘The light is near in the face of darkness.’
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Referenced Verses
- Deut 28:67 : 67 In the morning you will say,‘If only it were evening!’ And in the evening you will say,‘I wish it were morning!’ because of the things you will fear and the things you will see.
- Job 7:3-4 : 3 thus I have been made to inherit months of futility, and nights of sorrow have been appointed to me. 4 If I lie down, I say,‘When will I arise?’, and the night stretches on and I toss and turn restlessly until the day dawns.
- Job 7:13-14 : 13 If I say,“My bed will comfort me, my couch will ease my complaint,” 14 then you scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions,
- Job 24:14-16 : 14 Before daybreak the murderer rises up; he kills the poor and the needy; in the night he is like a thief. 15 And the eye of the adulterer watches for the twilight, thinking,‘No eye can see me,’ and covers his face with a mask. 16 In the dark the robber breaks into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.
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14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope about in the noontime as if it were night.
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16 In the dark the robber breaks into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.
17 For all of them, the morning is to them like deep darkness; they are friends with the terrors of darkness.
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11 My days have passed, my plans are shattered, even the desires of my heart.
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13 If I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
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11 If I were to say,“Certainly the darkness will cover me, and the light will turn to night all around me,”
12 even the darkness is not too dark for you to see, and the night is as bright as day; darkness and light are the same to you.
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21 before I depart, never to return, to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow,
22 to the land of utter darkness, like the deepest darkness, and the deepest shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”
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4 That day– let it be darkness; let not God on high regard it, nor let light shine on it!
5 Let darkness and the deepest shadow claim it; let a cloud settle on it; let whatever blackens the day terrify it!
6 That night– let darkness seize it; let it not be included among the days of the year; let it not enter among the number of the months!
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20 Don’t you realize the LORD’s day of judgment will bring darkness, not light– gloomy blackness, not bright light?
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13 There are those who rebel against the light; they do not know its ways and they do not stay on its paths.
14 Before daybreak the murderer rises up; he kills the poor and the needy; in the night he is like a thief.
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5 “Yes, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; his flame of fire does not shine.
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8 Let those who curse the day curse it– those who are prepared to rouse Leviathan.
9 Let its morning stars be darkened; let it wait for daylight but find none, nor let it see the first rays of dawn,
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17 Yet I have not been silent because of the darkness, because of the thick darkness that covered my face.
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22 He reveals the deep things of darkness, and brings deep shadows into the light.
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2 before the sun and the light of the moon and the stars grow dark, and the clouds disappear after the rain;
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19 The way of the wicked is like gloomy darkness; they do not know what they stumble over.
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16 Show the LORD your God the respect that is due him. Do it before he brings the darkness of disaster. Do it before you stumble into distress like a traveler on the mountains at twilight. Do it before he turns the light of deliverance you hope for into the darkness and gloom of exile.
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9 in the twilight, the evening, in the dark of the night.
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19 “In what direction does light reside, and darkness, where is its place,
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14 In the evening there is sudden terror; by morning they vanish. This is the fate of those who try to plunder us, the destiny of those who try to loot us!
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2 He drove me into captivity and made me walk in darkness and not light.
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22 When one looks out over the land, he sees distress and darkness, gloom and anxiety, darkness and people forced from the land.
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12 The night has advanced toward dawn; the day is near. So then we must lay aside the works of darkness, and put on the weapons of light.
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25 They grope about in darkness without light; he makes them stagger like drunkards.
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16 You established the cycle of day and night; you put the moon and sun in place.
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20 You make it dark and night comes, during which all the beasts of the forest prowl around.
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6 On that day there will be no light– the sources of light in the heavens will congeal.
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8 He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness over my paths.
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8 I will darken all the lights in the sky over you, and I will darken your land, declares the Sovereign LORD.
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6 He has made me reside in deepest darkness like those who died long ago.
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7 My eyes have grown dim with grief; my whole frame is but a shadow.
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3 when he caused his lamp to shine upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;
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9 In that day,” says the Sovereign LORD,“I will make the sun set at noon, and make the earth dark in the middle of the day.
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28 Indeed, you light my lamp, LORD. My God illuminates the darkness around me.
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10 Indeed the stars in the sky and their constellations no longer give out their light; the sun is darkened as soon as it rises, and the moon does not shine.
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15 The sun and moon are darkened; the stars withhold their brightness.
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20 They are destroyed between morning and evening; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.
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4 If I lie down, I say,‘When will I arise?’, and the night stretches on and I toss and turn restlessly until the day dawns.
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10 But if anyone walks around at night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”