Job 23:17

Webster's Bible (1833)

Because I was not cut off before the darkness, Neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 19:8 : 8 He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, And has set darkness in my paths.
  • Job 22:11 : 11 Or darkness, so that you can not see, And floods of waters cover you.
  • Isa 57:1 : 1 The righteous perishes, and no man lays it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil [to come].
  • 2 Kgs 22:20 : 20 Therefore, behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, neither shall your eyes see all the evil which I will bring on this place. They brought the king word again.
  • Job 6:9 : 9 Even that it would please God to crush me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
  • Job 15:22 : 22 He doesn't believe that he shall return out of darkness, He is waited for by the sword.
  • Job 18:6 : 6 The light shall be dark in his tent, His lamp above him shall be put out.
  • Job 18:18 : 18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Job 19:7-9
    3 verses
    79%

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

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

    9He has stripped me of my glory, And taken the crown from my head.

  • Job 29:3-4
    2 verses
    78%

    3When his lamp shone on my head, And by his light I walked through darkness;

    4As I was in the ripeness of my days, When the friendship of God was in my tent;

  • Lam 3:2
    77%

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

  • Job 23:15-16
    2 verses
    77%

    15Therefore I am terrified at his presence. When I consider, I am afraid of him.

    16For God has made my heart faint. The Almighty has terrified me.

  • Ps 139:11-12
    2 verses
    76%

    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 10:20-22
    3 verses
    76%

    20Aren't my days few? Cease then, Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

    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.'"

  • Job 3:4-6
    3 verses
    76%

    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 3:16
    76%

    16Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants who never saw light.

  • Job 3:9-10
    2 verses
    75%

    9Let 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,

    10Because it didn't shut up the doors of my mother's womb, Nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.

  • Job 23:7-9
    3 verses
    75%

    7There the upright might reason with him, So I should be delivered forever from my judge.

    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 17:11-13
    3 verses
    75%

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

    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,

  • Job 3:23
    75%

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

  • Job 22:11
    75%

    11Or darkness, so that you can not see, And floods of waters cover you.

  • Lam 3:6-7
    2 verses
    75%

    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.

  • Job 13:24
    74%

    24Why hide you your face, And hold me for your enemy?

  • Ps 31:22
    74%

    22As for me, I said in my haste, "I am cut off from before your eyes." Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.

  • Job 16:16-17
    2 verses
    74%

    16My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids.

    17Although there is no violence in my hands, And my prayer is pure.

  • Jer 17:16
    74%

    16As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you; neither have I desired the woeful day; you know: that which came out of my lips was before your face.

  • Job 31:23
    74%

    23For calamity from God is a terror to me, By reason of his majesty I can do nothing.

  • Job 13:20
    74%

    20"Only don't do two things to me; Then I will not hide myself from your face:

  • Ps 18:28
    74%

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

  • Job 17:7
    74%

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

  • 2 Sam 22:29
    74%

    29For you are my lamp, Yahweh; Yahweh will lighten my darkness.

  • Job 38:19
    74%

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

  • Ps 143:3
    73%

    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 10:18
    73%

    18"'Why, then, have you brought me forth out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.

  • Job 37:19
    73%

    19Teach us what we shall tell him; For we can't make our case by reason of darkness.

  • Job 6:10
    73%

    10Be it still my consolation, Yes, let me exult in pain that doesn't spare, That I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

  • Job 12:22
    73%

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

  • Job 14:13
    72%

    13"Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, That you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, That you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

  • Job 18:6
    72%

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

  • Lam 3:17
    72%

    17You have removed my soul far off from peace; I forgot prosperity.

  • Job 6:13
    72%

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

  • Job 28:3
    72%

    3Man sets an end to darkness, And searches out, to the furthest bound, The stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.