Job 18:6

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

The light in his tent grows dark; his lamp above him is extinguished.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 21:17 : 17 How Often Do the Wicked Suffer?“How often is the lamp of the wicked extinguished? How often does their misfortune come upon them? How often does God apportion pain to them in his anger?
  • Ps 18:28 : 28 Indeed, you light my lamp, LORD. My God illuminates the darkness around me.
  • Rev 18:23 : 23 Even the light from a lamp will never shine in you again! The voices of the bridegroom and his bride will never be heard in you again. For your merchants were the tycoons of the world, because all the nations were deceived by your magic spells!

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    5“Yes, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; his flame of fire does not shine.

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    26Total darkness waits to receive his treasures; a fire which has not been kindled will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.

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  • Job 18:14-18
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    14He is dragged from the security of his tent, and marched off to the king of terrors.

    15Fire resides in his tent; over his residence burning sulfur is scattered.

    16Below his roots dry up, and his branches wither above.

    17His memory perishes from the earth, he has no name in the land.

    18He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.

  • Prov 24:20
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    20for the evil person has no future, and the lamp of the wicked will be extinguished.

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  • Job 15:29-30
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    29He will not grow rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the land.

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  • Job 3:4-7
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    4That day– let it be darkness; let not God on high regard it, nor let light shine on it!

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    22to 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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    28Indeed, you light my lamp, LORD. My God illuminates the darkness around me.

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    15Therefore, his disaster will come suddenly; in an instant he will be broken, and there will be no remedy.

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    22When 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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    17Surely, he ate in darkness every day of his life, and he suffered greatly with sickness and anger.

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