Job 22:11
why it is so dark you cannot see, and why a flood of water covers you.
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Referenced Verses
- Ps 69:1-2 : 1 For the music director; according to the tune of“Lilies;” by David. Deliver me, O God, for the water has reached my neck. 2 I sink into the deep mire where there is no solid ground; I am in deep water, and the current overpowers me.
- Lam 3:54 : 54 The waters closed over my head; I thought I was about to die.
- Jonah 2:3 : 3 You threw me into the deep waters, into the middle of the sea; the ocean current engulfed me; all the mighty waves you sent swept over me.
- Ps 124:4-5 : 4 The water would have overpowered us; the current would have overwhelmed us. 5 The raging water would have overwhelmed us.
- Job 19:8 : 8 He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness over my paths.
- Job 38:34 : 34 Can you raise your voice to the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?
- Ps 42:7 : 7 One deep stream calls out to another at the sound of your waterfalls; all your billows and waves overwhelm me.
- Job 5:14 : 14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope about in the noontime as if it were night.
- Job 18:6 : 6 The light in his tent grows dark; his lamp above him is extinguished.
- Job 18:18 : 18 He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.
- Prov 4:19 : 19 The way of the wicked is like gloomy darkness; they do not know what they stumble over.
- Isa 8:22 : 22 When one looks out over the land, he sees distress and darkness, gloom and anxiety, darkness and people forced from the land.
- Lam 3:2 : 2 He drove me into captivity and made me walk in darkness and not light.
- Matt 8:12 : 12 but the sons of the kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
- Joel 2:2-3 : 2 It will be a day of dreadful darkness, a day of foreboding storm clouds, like blackness spread over the mountains. It is a huge and powerful army– there has never been anything like it ever before, and there will not be anything like it for many generations to come! 3 Like fire they devour everything in their path; a flame blazes behind them. The land looks like the Garden of Eden before them, but behind them there is only a desolate wilderness– for nothing escapes them!
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10When the mountains see you, they shake. The torrential downpour sweeps through. The great deep shouts out; it lifts its hands high.