Job 17:12

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Night for day they appoint, Light `is' near because of darkness.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 28:67 : 67 in the morning thou sayest, O that it were evening! and in the evening thou sayest, O that it were morning! from the fear of thy heart, with which thou art afraid, and from the sight of thine eyes which thou seest.
  • Job 7:3-4 : 3 So I have been caused to inherit months of vanity, And nights of misery they numbered to me. 4 If I lay down then I said, `When do I rise!' And evening hath been measured, And I have been full of tossings till dawn.
  • Job 7:13-14 : 13 When I said, `My bed doth comfort me,' He taketh away in my talking my couch. 14 And thou hast affrighted me with dreams, And from visions thou terrifiest me,
  • Job 24:14-16 : 14 At the light doth the murderer rise, He doth slay the poor and needy, And in the night he is as a thief. 15 And the eye of an adulterer Hath observed the twilight, Saying, `No eye doth behold me.' And he putteth the face in secret. 16 He hath dug in the darkness -- houses; By day they shut themselves up, They have not known light.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 5:14
    80%

    14By day they meet darkness, And as night -- they grope at noon.

  • Job 24:16-17
    2 verses
    79%

    16He hath dug in the darkness -- houses; By day they shut themselves up, They have not known light.

    17When together, morning `is' to them death shade, When he discerneth the terrors of death shade.

  • Job 17:11
    79%

    11My days have passed by, My devices have been broken off, The possessions of my heart!

  • Job 17:13
    79%

    13If I wait -- Sheol `is' my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch.

  • Ps 139:11-12
    2 verses
    78%

    11And I say, `Surely darkness bruiseth me, Then night `is' light to me.

    12Also darkness hideth not from Thee, And night as day shineth, as `is' darkness so `is' light.

  • Job 10:21-22
    2 verses
    77%

    21Before I go, and return not, Unto a land of darkness and death-shade,

    22A land of obscurity as thick darkness, Death-shade -- and no order, And the shining `is' as thick darkness.'

  • Job 3:4-6
    3 verses
    76%

    4That day -- let it be darkness, Let not God require it from above, Nor let light shine upon it.

    5Let darkness and death-shade redeem it, Let a cloud tabernacle upon it, Let them terrify it as the most bitter of days.

    6That night -- let thick darkness take it, Let it not be united to days of the year, Into the number of months let it not come.

  • Amos 5:20
    76%

    20Is not the day of Jehovah darkness and not light, Even thick darkness that hath no brightness?

  • Job 24:13-14
    2 verses
    75%

    13They have been among rebellious ones of light, They have not discerned His ways, Nor abode in His paths.

    14At the light doth the murderer rise, He doth slay the poor and needy, And in the night he is as a thief.

  • Job 18:5-6
    2 verses
    75%

    5Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there doth not shine a spark of his fire.

    6The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.

  • Job 3:8-9
    2 verses
    75%

    8Let the cursers of day mark it, Who are ready to wake up Leviathan.

    9Let the stars of its twilight be dark, Let it wait for light, and there is none, And let it not look on the eyelids of the dawn.

  • Job 23:17
    75%

    17For I have not been cut off before darkness, And before me He covered thick darkness.

  • Job 12:22
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    22Removing deep things out of darkness, And He bringeth out to light death-shade.

  • Eccl 12:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2While that the sun is not darkened, and the light, And the moon, and the stars, And the thick clouds returned after the rain.

    3In the day that keepers of the house tremble, And men of strength have bowed themselves, And grinders have ceased, because they have become few. And those looking out at the windows have become dim,

  • Prov 4:19
    74%

    19The way of the wicked `is' as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble.

  • Jer 13:16
    74%

    16Give ye to Jehovah your God honour, Before He doth cause darkness, And before your feet stumble on dark mountains, And ye have waited for light, And He hath made it for death-shade, And hath appointed `it' for thick darkness.

  • Prov 7:9
    74%

    9In the twilight -- in the evening of day, In the darkness of night and blackness.

  • Job 38:19
    74%

    19Where `is' this -- the way light dwelleth? And darkness, where `is' this -- its place?

  • Isa 17:14
    73%

    14At even-time, lo, terror, before morning it is not, This `is' the portion of our spoilers, And the lot of our plunderers!

  • Lam 3:2
    73%

    2Me He hath led, and causeth to go `in' darkness, and without light.

  • Isa 8:22
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    22And unto the land it looketh attentively, And lo, adversity and darkness! -- Dimness, distress, and thick darkness is driven away, But not the dimness for which she is in distress!

  • Rom 13:12
    73%

    12the night did advance, and the day came nigh; let us lay aside, therefore, the works of the darkness, and let us put on the armour of the light;

  • Job 12:25
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    25They feel darkness, and not light, He causeth them to wander as a drunkard.

  • Ps 74:16
    73%

    16Thine `is' the day, also Thine `is' the night, Thou hast prepared a light giver -- the sun.

  • Ps 104:20
    73%

    20Thou settest darkness, and it is night, In it doth every beast of the forest creep.

  • Zech 14:6
    73%

    6And it hath come to pass, in that day, The precious light is not, it is dense darkness,

  • Isa 5:30
    73%

    30And it howleth against it in that day as the howling of a sea, And it hath looked attentively to the land, And lo, darkness -- distress, And light hath been darkened by its abundance!

  • Mic 3:6
    73%

    6Therefore a night ye have without vision, And darkness ye have without divination, And gone in hath the sun on the prophets, And black over them hath been the day.

  • Job 19:8
    73%

    8My way He hedged up, and I pass not over, And on my paths darkness He placeth.

  • Ezek 32:8
    72%

    8All luminaries of light in the heavens, I make black over thee, And I have given darkness over thy land, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah,

  • Lam 3:6
    72%

    6In dark places He hath caused me to dwell, As the dead of old.

  • Job 17:7
    72%

    7And dim from sorrow is mine eye, And my members as a shadow all of them.

  • Job 29:3
    72%

    3In His causing His lamp to shine on my head, By His light I walk `through' darkness.

  • Amos 8:9
    72%

    9And it hath come to pass in that day, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, I have caused the sun to go in at noon, And caused darkness on the land in a day of light,

  • Ps 18:28
    72%

    28For Thou -- Thou lightest my lamp, Jehovah my God enlighteneth my darkness.

  • Isa 13:10
    72%

    10For the stars of the heavens, and their constellations, Cause not their light to shine, Darkened hath been the sun in its going out, And the moon causeth not its light to come forth.

  • Joel 3:15
    72%

    15Sun and moon have been black, And stars have gathered up their shining.

  • Job 4:20
    72%

    20From morning to evening are beaten down, Without any regarding, for ever they perish.

  • John 12:35
    72%

    35Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Yet a little time is the light with you; walk while ye have the light, that darkness may not overtake you; and he who is walking in the darkness hath not known where he goeth;

  • Job 7:4
    72%

    4If I lay down then I said, `When do I rise!' And evening hath been measured, And I have been full of tossings till dawn.

  • John 11:10
    72%

    10and if any one may walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him.'