Job 19:8

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 3:23 : 23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
  • Lam 3:7 : 7 He has walled me about, that I can't go forth; he has made my chain heavy.
  • Lam 3:9 : 9 He has walled up my ways with cut stone; he has made my paths crooked.
  • Hos 2:6 : 6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can't find her way.
  • John 8:12 : 12 Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life."
  • Job 30:26 : 26 When I looked for good, then evil came; When I waited for light, there came darkness.
  • Ps 88:8 : 8 You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can't escape.
  • Prov 4:19 : 19 The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know what they stumble over.
  • Isa 50:10 : 10 Who is among you who fears Yahweh, who obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness, and has no light, let him trust in the name of Yahweh, and rely on his God.
  • Jer 13:16 : 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.
  • Jer 23:12 : 12 Therefore their way shall be to them as slippery places in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil on them, even the year of their visitation, says Yahweh.
  • Josh 24:7 : 7 When they cried out to Yahweh, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea on them, and covered them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt: and you lived in the wilderness many days.

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  • Lam 3:5-9
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    5He has built against me, and surrounded me with gall and travail.

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

    7He has walled me about, that I can't go forth; he has made my chain heavy.

    8Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.

    9He has walled up my ways with cut stone; he has made my paths crooked.

  • Job 19:9-13
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    9He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

    10He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. My hope he has plucked up like a tree.

    11He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.

    12His troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent.

    13"He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.

  • Lam 3:2-3
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    2He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.

    3Surely against me he turns his hand again and again all the day.

  • Lam 3:11
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    11He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate.

  • Job 19:6-7
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    6know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.

    7"Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.

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

  • Job 33:10-11
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    10Behold, he finds occasions against me. He counts me for his enemy.

    11He puts my feet in the stocks. He marks all my paths.'

  • Job 3:23
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    23Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?

  • Job 38:19
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    19"What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,

  • Job 29:3
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    3when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,

  • Job 38:10
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    10marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors,

  • Job 30:19
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    19He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.

  • Job 23:8-9
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    8"If I go east, he is not there; if west, I can't find him;

    9He works to the north, but I can't see him. He turns south, but I can't catch a glimpse of him.

  • Job 30:13
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    13They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, without anyone's help.

  • Lam 1:13
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    13From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them; He has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: He has made me desolate and faint all the day.

  • Ps 88:8
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    8You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can't escape.

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

  • Job 18:6-7
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    6The light shall be dark in his tent. His lamp above him shall be put out.

    7The steps of his strength shall be shortened. His own counsel shall cast him down.

  • Ps 143:3
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    3For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

  • Job 9:17-18
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    17For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.

    18He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

  • Ps 142:3
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    3When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my path. In the way in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.

  • Prov 4:19
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    19The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know what they stumble over.

  • Job 22:11
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    11or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.

  • Job 17:12-13
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    12They change the night into day, saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.

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

  • Isa 59:9
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    9Therefore is justice far from us, neither does righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.

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

    22the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.'"

  • Ps 18:28
    73%

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

  • Job 9:11
    73%

    11Behold, he goes by me, and I don't see him. He passes on also, but I don't perceive him.

  • Job 22:14
    73%

    14Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn't see. He walks on the vault of the sky.'

  • Job 3:9
    73%

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

  • Ps 18:11
    72%

    11He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

  • Job 3:5
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    5Let 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.

  • Job 18:18
    72%

    18He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

  • Job 31:4
    72%

    4Doesn't he see my ways, and number all my steps?