Job 19:8
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 hid, 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 hewn 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 cause darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make 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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5 He has built against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
6 He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
7 He has walled me about, that I can't go forth; he has made my chain heavy.
8 Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
9 He has walled up my ways with hewn stone; he has made my paths crooked.
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9 He has stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head.
10 He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. My hope he has plucked up like a tree.
11 He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.
12 His 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.
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2 He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
3 Surely against me he turns his hand again and again all the day.
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11 He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate.
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6 Know 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.
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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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10 Behold, he finds occasions against me, He counts me for his enemy:
11 He puts my feet in the stocks, He marks all my paths.'
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23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, Whom God has hedged in?
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19 "What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is the place of it,
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3 When his lamp shone on my head, And by his light I walked through darkness;
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10 Marked out for it my bound, Set bars and doors,
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19 He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.
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8 "If I go east, he is not there; If west, I can't find him;
9 He works to the north, but I can't see him; He turns south, but I can't catch a glimpse of him.
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13 They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, Without anyone's help.
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13 From 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.
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8 You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can't escape.
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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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6 The light shall be dark in his tent, His lamp above him shall be put out.
7 The steps of his strength shall be shortened, His own counsel shall cast him down.
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3 For 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.
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17 For he breaks me with a tempest, Multiplies my wounds without cause.
18 He will not allow me to take my breath, But fills me with bitterness.
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3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, You knew my path. In the way in which I walk, They have hidden a snare for me.
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19 The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know what they stumble over.
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11 Or darkness, so that you can not see, And floods of waters cover you.
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12 They change the night into day, Saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.
13 If I look for Sheol as my house, If I have spread my couch in the darkness,
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9 Therefore 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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28 For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness.
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11 Behold, he goes by me, and I don't see him. He passes on also, but I don't perceive him.
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14 Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn't see. He walks on the vault of the sky.'
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9 Let the stars of the twilight of it be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, Neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,
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11 He made darkness his hiding-place, his pavilion around him, Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
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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.
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18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.
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4 Doesn't he see my ways, And number all my steps?