Job 23:8

World English Bible (2000)

"If I go east, he is not there; if west, I can't find him;

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 9:11 : 11 Behold, he goes by me, and I don't see him. He passes on also, but I don't perceive him.
  • Ps 10:1 : 1 Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?
  • Job 35:14 : 14 How much less when you say you don't see him. The cause is before him, and you wait for him!
  • 1 Tim 6:16 : 16 who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light; whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.
  • Ps 13:1-3 : 1 How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? 2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me? 3 Behold, and answer me, Yahweh, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;
  • Isa 45:15 : 15 Most certainly you are a God who hidden yourself, God of Israel, the Savior.'"

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    86%

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

    10But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come forth like gold.

    11My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned aside.

  • Job 9:11-12
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    11Behold, he goes by me, and I don't see him. He passes on also, but I don't perceive him.

    12Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, 'What are you doing?'

  • Job 23:7
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    7There the upright might reason with him, so I should be delivered forever from my judge.

  • Job 19:7-8
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    7"Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.

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  • Job 23:3
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    3Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat!

  • Job 8:18
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    18If he is destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, 'I have not seen you.'

  • Job 16:22
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    22For when a few years are come, I shall go the way of no return.

  • 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 7:8
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    8The eye of him who sees me shall see me no more. Your eyes shall be on me, but I shall not be.

  • Job 31:4
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    4Doesn't he see my ways, and number all my steps?

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

  • Ps 37:36
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    36But he passed away, and behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.

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    21"For his eyes are on the ways of a man. He sees all his goings.

  • Ps 139:7
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    7Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence?

  • Job 6:13
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    13Isn't it that I have no help in me, That wisdom is driven quite from me?

  • Job 23:13-15
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    13But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.

    14For he performs that which is appointed for me. Many such things are with him.

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  • Job 35:14
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    14How much less when you say you don't see him. The cause is before him, and you wait for him!

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

  • Job 34:32
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    32Teach me that which I don't see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more'?

  • Exod 33:23
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    23then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back; but my face shall not be seen."

  • Job 14:3
    71%

    3Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?

  • Job 9:32
    71%

    32For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.

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    16It stood still, but I couldn't discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes. Silence, then I heard a voice, saying,

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    8"But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,

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    5I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would tell me.

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    23"God understands its way, and he knows its place.

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    20I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me.

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    27Whom I, even I, shall see on my side. My eyes shall see, and not as a stranger. "My heart is consumed within me.

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    19If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, 'Who,' says he, 'will summon me?'

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    21Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be."

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    28I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent.

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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.'

  • Isa 40:27
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    27Why do you say, Jacob, and speak, Israel, "My way is hidden from Yahweh, and the justice due me is disregarded by my God?"

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    11I said, "I won't see Yah, Yah in the land of the living. I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

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    23Am I a God at hand, says Yahweh, and not a God afar off?

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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.

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    9The eye which saw him shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more see him.

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

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