Job 24:17
For all of them, the morning is to them like deep darkness; they are friends with the terrors of darkness.
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Referenced Verses
- Job 3:5 : 5 Let darkness and the deepest shadow claim it; let a cloud settle on it; let whatever blackens the day terrify it!
- Ps 73:18-19 : 18 Surely you put them in slippery places; you bring them down to ruin. 19 How desolate they become in a mere moment! Terrifying judgments make their demise complete!
- Jer 2:26 : 26 Just as a thief has to suffer dishonor when he is caught, so the people of Israel will suffer dishonor for what they have done. So will their kings and officials, their priests and their prophets.
- 2 Cor 5:10-11 : 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be paid back according to what he has done while in the body, whether good or evil. 11 The Message of Reconciliation Therefore, because we know the fear of the Lord, we try to persuade people, but we are well known to God, and I hope we are well known to your consciences too.
- Rev 6:16-17 : 16 They said to the mountains and to the rocks,“Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one who is seated on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb, 17 because the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to withstand it?”
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- Job 24:13-164 verses87%
13There are those who rebel against the light; they do not know its ways and they do not stay on its paths.
14Before daybreak the murderer rises up; he kills the poor and the needy; in the night he is like a thief.
15And the eye of the adulterer watches for the twilight, thinking,‘No eye can see me,’ and covers his face with a mask.
16In the dark the robber breaks into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.
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14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope about in the noontime as if it were night.
- Job 10:21-222 verses79%
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 17:12-132 verses79%
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 3:4-63 verses79%
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!
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14In 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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20They are destroyed between morning and evening; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.
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22There is no darkness, and no deep darkness, where evildoers can hide themselves.
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18“You say,‘He is foam on the face of the waters; their portion of the land is cursed so that no one goes to their vineyard.
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19The way of the wicked is like gloomy darkness; they do not know what they stumble over.
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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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16For they cannot sleep unless they cause harm; they are robbed of sleep until they make someone stumble.
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19Whenever it sweeps by, it will overtake you; indeed, every morning it will sweep by, it will come through during the day and the night.” When this announcement is understood, it will cause nothing but terror.
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22He reveals the deep things of darkness, and brings deep shadows into the light.
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30At that time they will growl over their prey, it will sound like sea waves crashing against rocks. One will look out over the land and see the darkness of disaster, clouds will turn the light into darkness.
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20Don’t you realize the LORD’s day of judgment will bring darkness, not light– gloomy blackness, not bright light?
- Job 3:8-92 verses73%
8Let those who curse the day curse it– those who are prepared to rouse Leviathan.
9Let 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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16Show 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.
- Job 15:23-242 verses73%
23he wanders about– food for vultures; he knows that the day of darkness is at hand.
24Distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him like a king ready to launch an attack,
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20In a moment they die, in the middle of the night, people are shaken and they pass away. The mighty are removed effortlessly.
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19How desolate they become in a mere moment! Terrifying judgments make their demise complete!
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25They grope about in darkness without light; he makes them stagger like drunkards.
- Job 22:10-112 verses73%
10That is why snares surround you, and why sudden fear terrifies you,
11why it is so dark you cannot see, and why a flood of water covers you.
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15That day will be a day of God’s anger, a day of distress and hardship, a day of devastation and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and dark skies,
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9in the twilight, the evening, in the dark of the night.
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20Terrors overwhelm him like a flood; at night a whirlwind carries him off.
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10They sat in utter darkness, bound in painful iron chains,
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6The light in his tent grows dark; his lamp above him is extinguished.
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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.
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18He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.
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6He has made me reside in deepest darkness like those who died long ago.
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20People of the west are appalled at his fate; people of the east are seized with horror, saying,
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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.
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15May death destroy them! May they go down alive into Sheol! For evil is in their dwelling place and in their midst.
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25Therefore, he knows their deeds, he overthrows them in the night and they are crushed.
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6Therefore night will fall, and you will receive no visions; it will grow dark, and you will no longer be able to read the omens. The sun will set on these prophets, and the daylight will turn to darkness over their heads.
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3Man puts an end to the darkness; he searches the farthest recesses for the ore in the deepest darkness.
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22for suddenly their destruction will overtake them, and who knows the ruinous judgment both the LORD and the king can bring?