Job 23:17

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Yet I have not been silent because of the darkness, because of the thick darkness that covered my face.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 19:8 : 8 He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness over my paths.
  • Job 22:11 : 11 why it is so dark you cannot see, and why a flood of water covers you.
  • Isa 57:1 : 1 The godly perish, but no one cares. Honest people disappear, when no one minds that the godly disappear because of evil.
  • 2 Kgs 22:20 : 20 ‘Therefore I will allow you to die and be buried in peace. You will not have to witness all the disaster I will bring on this place.’”’” Then they reported back to the king.
  • Job 6:9 : 9 And that God would be willing to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and kill me.
  • Job 15:22 : 22 He does not expect to escape from darkness; he is marked for the sword;
  • 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.

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

    8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness over my paths.

    9He has stripped me of my honor and has taken the crown off my head.

  • Job 29:3-4
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    3when he caused his lamp to shine upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;

    4just as I was in my most productive time, when God’s intimate friendship was experienced in my tent,

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

  • Job 23:15-16
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    15That is why I am terrified in his presence; when I consider, I am afraid because of him.

    16Indeed, God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me.

  • Ps 139:11-12
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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,”

    12even 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.

  • Job 10:20-22
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    20Are not my days few? Cease, then, and leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

    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.”

  • Job 3:4-6
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    76%

    4That day– let it be darkness; let not God on high regard it, nor let light shine on it!

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

    6That 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!

  • Job 3:16
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    16Or why was I not buried like a stillborn infant, like infants who have never seen the light?

  • Job 3:9-10
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    9Let its morning stars be darkened; let it wait for daylight but find none, nor let it see the first rays of dawn,

    10because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb on me, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes!

  • Job 23:7-9
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    7There an upright person could present his case before him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.

    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 17:11-13
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    11My days have passed, my plans are shattered, even the desires of my heart.

    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,

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

  • Lam 3:6-7
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    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.

  • Job 13:24
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    24Why do you hide your face and regard me as your enemy?

  • Ps 31:22
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    22I jumped to conclusions and said,“I am cut off from your presence!” But you heard my plea for mercy when I cried out to you for help.

  • Job 16:16-17
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    16my face is reddened because of weeping, and on my eyelids there is a deep darkness,

    17although there is no violence in my hands and my prayer is pure.

  • Jer 17:16
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    16But I have not pestered you to bring disaster. I have not desired the time of irreparable devastation. You know that. You are fully aware of every word that I have spoken.

  • Job 31:23
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    23For the calamity from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his majesty I was powerless.

  • Job 13:20
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    20Only in two things spare me, O God, and then I will not hide from your face:

  • Ps 18:28
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    28Indeed, you light my lamp, LORD. My God illuminates the darkness around me.

  • Job 17:7
    74%

    7My eyes have grown dim with grief; my whole frame is but a shadow.

  • 2 Sam 22:29
    74%

    29Indeed, you are my lamp, LORD. The LORD illumines the darkness around me.

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    19“In what direction does light reside, and darkness, where is its place,

  • Ps 143:3
    73%

    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 10:18
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    18An Appeal for Relief“Why then did you bring me out from the womb? I should have died and no eye would have seen me!

  • Job 37:19
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    19Tell us what we should say to him. We cannot prepare a case because of the darkness.

  • Job 6:10
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    10Then I would yet have my comfort, then I would rejoice, in spite of pitiless pain, for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.

  • Job 12:22
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    22He reveals the deep things of darkness, and brings deep shadows into the light.

  • Job 14:13
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    13The Possibility of Another Life“O that you would hide me in Sheol, and conceal me till your anger has passed! O that you would set me a time and then remember me!

  • Job 18:6
    72%

    6The light in his tent grows dark; his lamp above him is extinguished.

  • Lam 3:17
    72%

    17I am deprived of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is.

  • Job 6:13
    72%

    13Is not my power to help myself nothing, and has not every resource been driven from me?

  • Job 28:3
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    3Man puts an end to the darkness; he searches the farthest recesses for the ore in the deepest darkness.