Job 19:8

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 3:23 : 23 To a man whose way hath been hidden, And whom God doth shut up?
  • Lam 3:7 : 7 He hath hedged me about, and I go not out, He hath made heavy my fetter.
  • Lam 3:9 : 9 He hath hedged my ways with hewn work, My paths He hath made crooked.
  • Hos 2:6 : 6 Therefore, lo, I am hedging up thy way with thorns, And I have made for her a wall, And her paths she doth not find.
  • John 8:12 : 12 Again, therefore, Jesus spake to them, saying, `I am the light of the world; he who is following me shall not walk in the darkness, but he shall have the light of the life.'
  • Job 30:26 : 26 When good I expected, then cometh evil, And I wait for light, and darkness cometh.
  • Ps 88:8 : 8 Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me, Thou hast made me an abomination to them, Shut up -- I go not forth.
  • Prov 4:19 : 19 The way of the wicked `is' as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble.
  • Isa 50:10 : 10 Who `is' among you, fearing Jehovah, Hearkening to the voice of His servant, That hath walked in dark places, And there is no brightness for him? Let him trust in the name of Jehovah, And lean upon his God.
  • Jer 13:16 : 16 Give 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.
  • Jer 23:12 : 12 Therefore is their way to them as slippery places, Into thick darkness they are driven, And they have fallen in it, For I bring in against them evil, The year of their inspection, An affirmation of Jehovah.
  • Josh 24:7 : 7 and they cry unto Jehovah, and He setteth thick darkness between you and the Egyptians, and bringeth on them the sea, and covereth them, and your eyes see that which I have done in Egypt; and ye dwell in a wilderness many days.

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  • Lam 3:5-9
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    5He hath built up against me, And setteth round poverty and weariness.

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

    7He hath hedged me about, and I go not out, He hath made heavy my fetter.

    8Also when I call and cry out, He hath shut out my prayer.

    9He hath hedged my ways with hewn work, My paths He hath made crooked.

  • Job 19:9-13
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    81%

    9Mine honour from off me He hath stripped, And He turneth the crown from my head.

    10He breaketh me down round about, and I go, And removeth like a tree my hope.

    11And He kindleth against me His anger, And reckoneth me to Him as His adversaries.

    12Come in do His troops together, And they raise up against me their way, And encamp round about my tent.

    13My brethren from me He hath put far off, And mine acquaintances surely Have been estranged from me.

  • Lam 3:2-3
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    2Me He hath led, and causeth to go `in' darkness, and without light.

    3Surely against me He turneth back, He turneth His hand all the day.

  • 11My ways He is turning aside, and He pulleth me in pieces, He hath made me a desolation.

  • Job 19:6-7
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    6Know now, that God turned me upside down, And His net against me hath set round,

    7Lo, I cry out -- violence, and am not answered, I cry aloud, and there is no judgment.

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

  • Job 33:10-11
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    10Lo, occasions against me He doth find, He doth reckon me for an enemy to Him,

    11He doth put in the stocks my feet, He doth watch all my paths.'

  • 23To a man whose way hath been hidden, And whom God doth shut up?

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

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

  • 10And I measure over it My statute, And place bar and doors,

  • 19Casting me into mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.

  • Job 23:8-9
    2 verses
    75%

    8Lo, forward I go -- and He is not, And backward -- and I perceive him not.

    9`To' the left in His working -- and I see not, He is covered `on' the right, and I behold not.

  • 13They have broken down my path, By my calamity they profit, `He hath no helper.'

  • 13From above He hath sent fire into my bone, And it subdueth it, He hath spread a net for my feet, He hath turned me backward, He hath made me desolate -- all the day sick.

  • 8Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me, Thou hast made me an abomination to them, Shut up -- I go not forth.

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

  • Job 18:6-7
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    6The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.

    7Straitened are the steps of his strength, And cast him down doth his own counsel.

  • 3For an enemy hath pursued my soul, He hath bruised to the earth my life, He hath caused me to dwell in dark places, As the dead of old.

  • Job 9:17-18
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    17Because with a tempest He bruiseth me, And hath multiplied my wounds for nought.

    18He permitteth me not to refresh my spirit, But filleth me with bitter things.

  • 3When my spirit hath been feeble in me, Then Thou hast known my path; In the way `in' which I walk, They have hid a snare for me.

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

  • 11Or darkness -- thou dost not see, And abundance of waters doth cover thee.

  • Job 17:12-13
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    12Night for day they appoint, Light `is' near because of darkness.

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

  • 9Therefore hath judgment been far from us, And righteousness reacheth us not, We wait for light, and lo, darkness, For brightness -- in thick darkness we go,

  • Job 10:21-22
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    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.'

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

  • 11Lo, He goeth over by me, and I see not, And He passeth on, and I attend not to it.

  • 14Thick clouds `are' a secret place to Him, And He doth not see;' And the circle of the heavens He walketh habitually,

  • 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.

  • 11He maketh darkness His secret place, Round about Him His tabernacle, Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

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

  • 18They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out.

  • 4Doth not He see my ways, And all my steps number?