Job 19:8

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness over my paths.

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Referenced Verses

  • 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 ג(Gimel) He has walled me in so that I cannot get out; he has weighted me down with heavy prison chains.
  • Lam 3:9 : 9 He has blocked every road I take with a wall of hewn stones; he has made every path impassable.
  • Hos 2:6 : 6 The Lord’s Discipline Will Bring Israel Back Therefore, I will soon fence her in with thorns; I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way.
  • John 8:12 : 12 Jesus as the Light of the World Then Jesus spoke out again,“I am the light of the world! The one who follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
  • Job 30:26 : 26 But when I hoped for good, trouble came; when I expected light, then darkness came.
  • Ps 88:8 : 8 You cause those who know me to keep their distance; you make me an appalling sight to them. I am trapped and cannot get free.
  • Prov 4:19 : 19 The way of the wicked is like gloomy darkness; they do not know what they stumble over.
  • Isa 50:10 : 10 Who among you fears the LORD? Who obeys his servant? Whoever walks in deep darkness, without light, should trust in the name of the LORD and rely on his God.
  • Jer 13:16 : 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.
  • Jer 23:12 : 12 So the paths they follow will be dark and slippery. They will stumble and fall headlong. For I will bring disaster on them. A day of reckoning is coming for them.” The LORD affirms it!
  • Josh 24:7 : 7 Your fathers cried out for help to the LORD; he made the area between you and the Egyptians dark, and then drowned them in the sea. You witnessed with your very own eyes what I did in Egypt. You lived in the wilderness for a long time.

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    5He has besieged and surrounded me with bitter hardship.

    6He has made me reside in deepest darkness like those who died long ago.

    7ג(Gimel) He has walled me in so that I cannot get out; he has weighted me down with heavy prison chains.

    8Also, when I cry out desperately for help, he has shut out my prayer.

    9He has blocked every road I take with a wall of hewn stones; he has made every path impassable.

  • Job 19:9-13
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    9He has stripped me of my honor and has taken the crown off my head.

    10He tears me down on every side until I perish; he uproots my hope like an uprooted tree.

    11Thus his anger burns against me, and he considers me among his enemies.

    12His troops advance together; they throw up a siege ramp against me, and they camp around my tent.

    13Job’s Forsaken State“He has put my relatives far from me; my acquaintances only turn away from me.

  • Lam 3:2-3
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    2He drove me into captivity and made me walk in darkness and not light.

    3He repeatedly attacks me, he turns his hand against me all day long.

  • Lam 3:11
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    11He has obstructed my paths and torn me to pieces; he has made me desolate.

  • Job 19:6-7
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    6know then that God has wronged me and encircled me with his net.

    7Job’s Abandonment and Affliction“If I cry out,‘Violence!’ I receive no answer; I cry for help, but there is no justice.

  • Job 23:17
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    17Yet I have not been silent because of the darkness, because of the thick darkness that covered my face.

  • Job 33:10-11
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    10Yet God finds occasions with me; he regards me as his enemy!

    11He puts my feet in shackles; he watches closely all my paths.’

  • Job 3:23
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    23Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?

  • Job 38:19
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    19“In what direction does light reside, and darkness, where is its place,

  • Job 29:3
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    3when he caused his lamp to shine upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;

  • Job 38:10
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    10when I prescribed its limits, and set in place its bolts and doors,

  • Job 30:19
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    19He has flung me into the mud, and I have come to resemble dust and ashes.

  • Job 23:8-9
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    8The Inaccessibility and Power of God“If I go to the east, he is not there, and to the west, yet I do not perceive him.

    9In the north when he is at work, I do not see him; when he turns to the south, I see no trace of him.

  • Job 30:13
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    13They destroy my path; they succeed in destroying me without anyone assisting them.

  • Lam 1:13
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    13מ(Mem) He sent down fire into my bones, and it overcame them. He spread out a trapper’s net for my feet; he made me turn back. He has made me desolate; I am faint all day long.

  • Ps 88:8
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    8You cause those who know me to keep their distance; you make me an appalling sight to them. I am trapped and cannot get free.

  • Ps 139:11
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    11If I were to say,“Certainly the darkness will cover me, and the light will turn to night all around me,”

  • Job 18:6-7
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    6The light in his tent grows dark; his lamp above him is extinguished.

    7His vigorous steps are restricted, and his own counsel throws him down.

  • Ps 143:3
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    3Certainly my enemies chase me. They smash me into the ground. They force me to live in dark regions, like those who have been dead for ages.

  • Job 9:17-18
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    17he who crushes me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds for no reason.

    18He does not allow me to recover my breath, for he fills me with bitterness.

  • Ps 142:3
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    3Even when my strength leaves me, you watch my footsteps. In the path where I walk they have hidden a trap for me.

  • Prov 4:19
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    19The way of the wicked is like gloomy darkness; they do not know what they stumble over.

  • Job 22:11
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    11why it is so dark you cannot see, and why a flood of water covers you.

  • Job 17:12-13
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    12These men change night into day; they say,‘The light is near in the face of darkness.’

    13If I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

  • Isa 59:9
    73%

    9Israel Confesses its Sin For this reason deliverance is far from us and salvation does not reach us. We wait for light, but see only darkness; we wait for a bright light, but live in deep darkness.

  • Job 10:21-22
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    21before I depart, never to return, to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow,

    22to the land of utter darkness, like the deepest darkness, and the deepest shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”

  • Ps 18:28
    73%

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

  • Job 9:11
    73%

    11If he passes by me, I cannot see him, if he goes by, I cannot perceive him.

  • Job 22:14
    73%

    14Thick clouds are a veil for him, so he does not see us, as he goes back and forth in the vault of heaven.’

  • Job 3:9
    73%

    9Let its morning stars be darkened; let it wait for daylight but find none, nor let it see the first rays of dawn,

  • Ps 18:11
    72%

    11He shrouded himself in darkness, in thick rain clouds.

  • Job 3:5
    72%

    5Let darkness and the deepest shadow claim it; let a cloud settle on it; let whatever blackens the day terrify it!

  • Job 18:18
    72%

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

  • Job 31:4
    72%

    4Does he not see my ways and count all my steps?