Job 37:19

World English Bible (2000)

Teach us what we shall tell him, for we can't make our case by reason of darkness.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 12:3 : 3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn't know such things as these?
  • Job 13:3 : 3 "Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.
  • Job 13:6 : 6 Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips.
  • Job 26:14 : 14 Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?"
  • Job 28:20-21 : 20 Where then does wisdom come from? Where is the place of understanding? 21 Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the birds of the sky.
  • Job 38:2 : 2 "Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
  • Job 42:3 : 3 You asked, 'Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?' therefore I have uttered that which I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn't know.
  • Ps 73:16-17 : 16 When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me; 17 Until I entered God's sanctuary, and considered their latter end.
  • Ps 73:22 : 22 I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.
  • Ps 139:6 : 6 This knowledge is beyond me. It's lofty. I can't attain it.
  • Prov 30:2-4 : 2 "Surely I am the most ignorant man, and don't have a man's understanding. 3 I have not learned wisdom, neither do I have the knowledge of the Holy One. 4 Who has ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has bound the waters in his garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son's name, if you know?
  • 1 Cor 13:12 : 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.
  • 1 John 3:2 : 2 Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

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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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    13You say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

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    2"Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

  • Job 10:22
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    22the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.'"

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

  • Job 37:18
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    18Can you, with him, spread out the sky, which is strong as a cast metal mirror?

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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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  • 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 15:9
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    9What do you know, that we don't know? What do you understand, which is not in us?

  • Job 8:9-10
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    9(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)

    10Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart?

  • Jer 13:16
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    16Give 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.

  • Ps 139:11-12
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    72%

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

    12even the darkness doesn't hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.

  • Job 38:34-35
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    34"Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover you?

    35Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go? Do they report to you, 'Here we are?'

  • Job 3:4-6
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    72%

    4Let that day be darkness. Don't let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.

    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.

    6As 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.

  • Job 42:3-4
    2 verses
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    3You asked, 'Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?' therefore I have uttered that which I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn't know.

    4You said, 'Listen, now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.'

  • Job 17:12
    71%

    12They change the night into day, saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.

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

  • Job 36:32
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    32He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark.

  • Job 19:8
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    8He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

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

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    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,

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

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

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

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    19Though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

  • Job 6:24
    70%

    24"Teach me, and I will hold my peace. Cause me to understand wherein I have erred.

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

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

  • Job 38:24
    70%

    24By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind scattered on the earth?

  • Isa 8:22
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    22and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.

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    3that Yahweh your God may show us the way in which we should walk, and the thing that we should do.

  • 2 Chr 20:12
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    12Our God, will you not judge them? For we have no might against this great company that comes against us; neither know we what to do, but our eyes are on you."

  • Job 18:3
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    3Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?

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

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    12So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

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    15Do you know how God controls them, and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?

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

  • Job 26:3
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    3How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!

  • Ps 18:28
    69%

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

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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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    11who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?'