Job 38:19

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 1:3-4 : 3 God said,“Let there be light.” And there was light! 4 God saw that the light was good, so God separated the light from the darkness.
  • Gen 1:14-18 : 14 God said,“Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them be signs to indicate seasons and days and years, 15 and let them serve as lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth.” It was so. 16 God made two great lights– the greater light to rule over the day and the lesser light to rule over the night. He made the stars also. 17 God placed the lights in the expanse of the sky to shine on the earth, 18 to preside over the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.
  • Deut 4:19 : 19 When you look up to the sky and see the sun, moon, and stars– the whole heavenly creation– you must not be seduced to worship and serve them, for the LORD your God has assigned them to all the people of the world.
  • Job 38:12-13 : 12 Have you ever in your life commanded the morning, or made the dawn know its place, 13 that it might seize the corners of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?
  • Ps 18:11 : 11 He shrouded himself in darkness, in thick rain clouds.
  • Ps 104:20 : 20 You make it dark and night comes, during which all the beasts of the forest prowl around.
  • Ps 105:28 : 28 He made it dark; they did not disobey his orders.
  • Isa 45:7 : 7 I am the one who forms light and creates darkness; the one who brings about peace and creates calamity. I am the LORD, who accomplishes all these things.
  • 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.
  • Ezek 32:8 : 8 I will darken all the lights in the sky over you, and I will darken your land, declares the Sovereign LORD.
  • Amos 4:13 : 13 For here he is! He formed the mountains and created the wind. He reveals his plans to men. He turns the dawn into darkness and marches on the heights of the earth. The LORD God of Heaven’s Armies, is his name!”
  • Matt 27:45 : 45 Jesus’ Death Now from noon until three, darkness came over all the land.
  • John 1:9 : 9 The true light, who gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.
  • 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.”

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  • Job 38:20-22
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    20that you may take them to their borders and perceive the pathways to their homes?

    21You know, for you were born before them; and the number of your days is great!

    22Have you entered the storehouse of the snow, or seen the armory of the hail,

  • Job 38:24-25
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    24In what direction is lightning dispersed, or the east winds scattered over the earth?

    25Who carves out a channel for the heavy rains, and a path for the rumble of thunder,

  • Job 38:16-18
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    16Have you gone to the springs that fill the sea, or walked about in the recesses of the deep?

    17Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of deepest darkness?

    18Have you considered the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me, if you know it all!

  • Job 28:12
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    12No Price Can Buy Wisdom“But wisdom– where can it be found? Where is the place of understanding?

  • Job 28:20
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    20God Alone Has Wisdom“But wisdom– where does it come from? Where is the place of understanding?

  • 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 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.”

  • Job 22:11-13
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    11why it is so dark you cannot see, and why a flood of water covers you.

    12“Is not God on high in heaven? And see the lofty stars, how high they are!

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

  • Job 37:18-19
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    18will you, with him, spread out the clouds, solid as a mirror of molten metal?

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

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

  • 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 38:4
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    4God’s questions to Job“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you possess understanding!

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

  • 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.

  • Job 38:35-36
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    35Can you send out lightning bolts, and they go? Will they say to you,‘Here we are’?

    36Who has put wisdom in the heart, or has imparted understanding to the mind?

  • Job 38:33
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    33Do you know the laws of the heavens, or can you set up their rule over the earth?

  • Job 34:22
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    22There is no darkness, and no deep darkness, where evildoers can hide themselves.

  • 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 37:15-16
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    15Do you know how God commands them, how he makes lightning flash in his storm cloud?

    16Do you know about the balancing of the clouds, that wondrous activity of him who is perfect in knowledge?

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

  • Job 38:12-13
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    12Have you ever in your life commanded the morning, or made the dawn know its place,

    13that it might seize the corners of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?

  • Job 25:3
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    3Can his armies be numbered? On whom does his light not rise?

  • Dan 2:22
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    22he reveals deep and hidden things. He knows what is in the darkness, and light resides with him.

  • Prov 4:19
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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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    28For you say,‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked lived?’

  • Job 11:8
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    8It is higher than the heavens– what can you do? It is deeper than Sheol– what can you know?

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

  • Job 23:8
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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.

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

  • Job 3:4-5
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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!

  • Job 3:9
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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,

  • Job 28:23
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    23God understands the way to it, and he alone knows its place.

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

  • Isa 59:9
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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.

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    4“Surely you know that it has been from old, ever since humankind was placed on the earth,