Job 17:12

World English Bible (2000)

They change the night into day, saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 28:67 : 67 In the morning you shall say, "I wish it were evening!" and at evening you shall say, "I wish it were morning!" for the fear of your heart which you shall fear, and for the sight of your eyes which you shall see.
  • Job 7:3-4 : 3 so am I made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me. 4 When I lie down, I say, 'When shall I arise, and the night be gone?' I toss and turn until the dawning of the day.
  • Job 7:13-14 : 13 When I say, 'My bed shall comfort me. My couch shall ease my complaint;' 14 then you scare me with dreams, and terrify me through visions:
  • Job 24:14-16 : 14 The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief. 15 The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, 'No eye shall see me.' He disguises his face. 16 In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don't know the light.

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    14 They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.

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    16 In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don't know the light.

    17 For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

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    11 My days are past, my plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.

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    13 If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,

  • Ps 139:11-12
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    11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; the light around me will be night;"

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  • Job 10:21-22
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    21 before I go where I shall not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

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  • Job 3:4-6
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    4 Let that day be darkness. Don't let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.

    5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.

    6 As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months.

  • Amos 5:20
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    20 Won't the day of Yahweh be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?

  • Job 24:13-14
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    13 "These are of those who rebel against the light. They don't know its ways, nor stay in its paths.

    14 The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.

  • Job 18:5-6
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    5 "Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, The spark of his fire shall not shine.

    6 The light shall be dark in his tent. His lamp above him shall be put out.

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    8 Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.

    9 Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

  • Job 23:17
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    17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

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    22 He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.

  • Eccl 12:2-3
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    2 Before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;

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    19 The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know what they stumble over.

  • Jer 13:16
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    16 Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.

  • Prov 7:9
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    9 in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness.

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    19 "What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,

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    14 At evening, behold, terror! Before the morning, they are no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who rob us.

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    2 He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.

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    22 and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.

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    12 The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let's therefore throw off the works of darkness, and let's put on the armor of light.

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    25 They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

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    16 The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.

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    20 You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals of the forest prowl.

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    6 It will happen in that day, that there will not be light, cold, or frost.

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    30 They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.

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    6 "Therefore night is over you, with no vision, and it is dark to you, that you may not divine; and the sun will go down on the prophets, and the day will be black over them.

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    8 He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

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    8 All the bright lights of the sky will I make dark over you, and set darkness on your land, says the Lord Yahweh.

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    6 He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

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    7 My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.

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    3 when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,

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    9 It will happen in that day," says the Lord Yahweh, "that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.

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    28 For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness.

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    10 For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going forth, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.

  • Joel 3:15
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    15 The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.

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    20 Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.

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    4 When I lie down, I say, 'When shall I arise, and the night be gone?' I toss and turn until the dawning of the day.

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    10 But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn't in him."