Psalms 139:12

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

even 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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Referenced Verses

  • Job 34:22 : 22 There is no darkness, and no deep darkness, where evildoers can hide themselves.
  • Dan 2:22 : 22 he reveals deep and hidden things. He knows what is in the darkness, and light resides with him.
  • Heb 4:13 : 13 And no creature is hidden from God, but everything is naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must render an account.
  • Exod 14:20 : 20 It came between the Egyptian camp and the Israelite camp; it was a dark cloud and it lit up the night so that one camp did not come near the other the whole night.
  • Exod 20:21 : 21 The people kept their distance, but Moses drew near the thick darkness where God was.
  • Job 26:6 : 6 The underworld is naked before God; the place of destruction lies uncovered.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Ps 139:10-11
    2 verses
    89%

    10even there your hand would guide me, your right hand would grab hold of me.

    11If I were to say,“Certainly the darkness will cover me, and the light will turn to night all around me,”

  • Ps 18:28
    78%

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

  • Job 17:12-13
    2 verses
    78%

    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,

  • 2 Sam 22:29
    77%

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

  • Ps 139:13
    77%

    13Certainly you made my mind and heart; you wove me together in my mother’s womb.

  • Ps 104:20
    77%

    20You make it dark and night comes, during which all the beasts of the forest prowl around.

  • Job 22:11
    77%

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

  • Job 38:19
    77%

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

  • Dan 2:22
    76%

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

  • Job 34:22
    76%

    22There is no darkness, and no deep darkness, where evildoers can hide themselves.

  • Job 10:22
    76%

    22to the land of utter darkness, like the deepest darkness, and the deepest shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”

  • Ps 74:16
    76%

    16You established the cycle of day and night; you put the moon and sun in place.

  • Ps 139:7-8
    2 verses
    75%

    7Where can I go to escape your Spirit? Where can I flee to escape your presence?

    8If I were to ascend to heaven, you would be there. If I were to sprawl out in Sheol, there you would be.

  • Job 12:22
    74%

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

  • Ps 88:12
    74%

    12Are your amazing deeds experienced in the dark region, or your deliverance in the land of oblivion?

  • Job 23:17
    74%

    17Yet I have not been silent because of the darkness, because of the thick darkness that covered my face.

  • Ps 139:1-4
    4 verses
    74%

    1For the music director, a psalm of David. O LORD, you examine me and know.

    2You know when I sit down and when I get up; even from far away you understand my motives.

    3You carefully observe me when I travel or when I lie down to rest; you are aware of everything I do.

    4Certainly my tongue does not frame a word without you, O LORD, being thoroughly aware of it.

  • John 1:5
    74%

    5And the light shines on in the darkness, but the darkness has not mastered it.

  • Job 29:3
    74%

    3when he caused his lamp to shine upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;

  • Job 5:14
    74%

    14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope about in the noontime as if it were night.

  • Job 3:4-6
    3 verses
    73%

    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!

  • Amos 5:20
    73%

    20Don’t you realize the LORD’s day of judgment will bring darkness, not light– gloomy blackness, not bright light?

  • Lam 3:2
    73%

    2He drove me into captivity and made me walk in darkness and not light.

  • Job 28:3
    73%

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

  • Job 22:13
    73%

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

  • Ps 104:2
    73%

    2He covers himself with light as if it were a garment. He stretches out the skies like a tent curtain,

  • Jer 13:16
    72%

    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 139:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15my bones were not hidden from you, when I was made in secret and sewed together in the depths of the earth.

    16Your eyes saw me when I was inside the womb. All the days ordained for me were recorded in your scroll before one of them came into existence.

  • Ps 36:9
    72%

    9For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light.

  • 2 Sam 22:12
    72%

    12He shrouded himself in darkness, in thick rain clouds.

  • Ps 121:6
    72%

    6The sun will not harm you by day, or the moon by night.

  • Luke 11:35-36
    2 verses
    72%

    35Therefore see to it that the light in you is not darkness.

    36If then your whole body is full of light, with no part in the dark, it will be as full of light as when the light of a lamp shines on you.”

  • Job 24:16-17
    2 verses
    72%

    16In the dark the robber breaks into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.

    17For all of them, the morning is to them like deep darkness; they are friends with the terrors of darkness.

  • Ps 18:11
    72%

    11He shrouded himself in darkness, in thick rain clouds.

  • Job 11:17
    72%

    17And life will be brighter than the noonday; though there be darkness, it will be like the morning.

  • Prov 7:9
    72%

    9in the twilight, the evening, in the dark of the night.

  • Job 3:9
    72%

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

  • Prov 4:19
    71%

    19The way of the wicked is like gloomy darkness; they do not know what they stumble over.

  • 1 John 1:5
    71%

    5God Is Light, So We Must Walk in the Light Now this is the gospel message we have heard from him and announce to you: God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all.