Job 37:19

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Tell us what we should say to him. We cannot prepare a case because of the darkness.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 12:3 : 3 I also have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?
  • Job 13:3 : 3 But I wish to speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God.
  • Job 13:6 : 6 “Listen now to my argument, and be attentive to my lips’ contentions.
  • Job 26:14 : 14 Indeed, these are but the outer fringes of his ways! How faint is the whisper we hear of him! But who can understand the thunder of his power?”
  • Job 28:20-21 : 20 God Alone Has Wisdom“But wisdom– where does it come from? Where is the place of understanding? 21 For it has been hidden from the eyes of every living creature, and from the birds of the sky it has been concealed.
  • Job 38:2 : 2 “Who is this who darkens counsel with words without knowledge?
  • Job 42:3 : 3 you asked,‘Who is this who darkens counsel without knowledge?’ But I have declared without understanding things too wonderful for me to know.
  • Ps 73:16-17 : 16 When I tried to make sense of this, it was troubling to me. 17 Then I entered the precincts of God’s temple, and understood the destiny of the wicked.
  • Ps 73:22 : 22 I was ignorant and lacked insight; I was as senseless as an animal before you.
  • Ps 139:6 : 6 Your knowledge is beyond my comprehension; it is so far beyond me, I am unable to fathom it.
  • Prov 30:2-4 : 2 Surely I am more brutish than any other human being, and I do not have human understanding; 3 I have not learned wisdom, nor can I have knowledge of the Holy One. 4 Who has ascended into heaven, and then descended? Who has gathered up the winds in his fists? Who has bound up the waters in his cloak? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son’s name? Surely you can know!
  • 1 Cor 13:12 : 12 For now we see in a mirror indirectly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I have been fully known.
  • 1 John 3:2 : 2 Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that whenever it is revealed we will be like him, because we will see him just as he is.

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  • Job 38:19-20
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    19“In what direction does light reside, and darkness, where is its place,

    20that you may take them to their borders and perceive the pathways to their homes?

  • Job 22:13
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    13But you have said,‘What does God know? Does he judge through such deep darkness?

  • Job 38:2
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    2“Who is this who darkens counsel with words without knowledge?

  • Job 10:22
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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.”

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

  • Job 37:18
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    18will you, with him, spread out the clouds, solid as a mirror of molten metal?

  • Isa 59:9-10
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    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.

    10We grope along the wall like the blind, we grope like those who cannot see; we stumble at noontime as if it were evening. Though others are strong, we are like dead men.

  • 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 15:9
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    9What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand that we don’t understand?

  • Job 8:9-10
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    9For we were born yesterday and do not have knowledge, since our days on earth are but a shadow.

    10Will they not instruct you and speak to you, and bring forth words from their understanding?

  • Jer 13:16
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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.

  • 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 38:34-35
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    34Can you raise your voice to the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?

    35Can you send out lightning bolts, and they go? Will they say to you,‘Here we are’?

  • Job 3:4-6
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    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 42:3-4
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    3you asked,‘Who is this who darkens counsel without knowledge?’ But I have declared without understanding things too wonderful for me to know.

    4You said,‘Pay attention, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.’

  • Job 17:12
    71%

    12These men change night into day; they say,‘The light is near in the face of darkness.’

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

  • Job 36:32
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    32With his hands he covers the lightning, and directs it against its target.

  • Job 19:8
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    8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness over my paths.

  • Job 29:3
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    14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope about in the noontime as if it were night.

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

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    19Yet you have battered us, leaving us a heap of ruins overrun by wild dogs; you have covered us with darkness.

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    24No Sin Discovered“Teach me and I, for my part, will be silent; explain to me how I have been mistaken.

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    22He reveals the deep things of darkness, and brings deep shadows into the light.

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

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    70%

    24In what direction is lightning dispersed, or the east winds scattered over the earth?

  • Isa 8:22
    70%

    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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    3Pray that the LORD your God will tell us where we should go and what we should do.”

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    12Our God, will you not judge them? For we are powerless against this huge army that attacks us! We don’t know what we should do; we look to you for help.”

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    3Why should we be regarded as beasts, and considered stupid in your sight?

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    15Do you know how God commands them, how he makes lightning flash in his storm cloud?

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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 26:3
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    3How you have advised the one without wisdom, and abundantly revealed your insight!

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

  • Job 23:5
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    5I would know with what words he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me.

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    11who teaches us more than the wild animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’