Job 11:17
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Your life will be brighter than noonday; its darkness will be like the morning.”
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“Your life will be brighter than noonday; its darkness will be like the morning.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Andthylife shall be clearer than the noonday; Though there be darkness, it shall be as the morning.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And above the noon doth age rise, Thou fliest--as the morning thou art.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 11:17 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Chronicles 29:10Then David blessed the LORD in the sight of all the assembly and said: “May You be blessed, O LORD, God of our father Israel, from everlasting to everlasting.
- Job 42:11All his brothers and sisters and prior acquaintances came and dined with him in his house. They consoled him and comforted him over all the adversity that the LORD had brought upon him. And each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.
- Psalms 37:6He will bring forth your righteousness like the dawn, your justice like the noonday sun.
- Psalms 92:14In old age they will still bear fruit; healthy and green they will remain,
- Psalms 97:11Light shines on the righteous, gladness on the upright in heart.
- Psalms 112:4Light dawns in the darkness for the upright— for the gracious, compassionate, and righteous.
- Proverbs 4:18The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until midday.
- Isaiah 58:8Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will come quickly. Your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard.
- Isaiah 58:10and if you give yourself to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will go forth in the darkness, and your night will be like noonday.
- Hosea 6:3So let us know— let us press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the rain, like the spring showers that water the earth.
- Micah 7:8Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will arise; though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light.
- Zechariah 14:6On that day there will be no light, no cold or frost.
- Malachi 4:2“But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall.
- Luke 2:26The Holy Spirit had revealed to him that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ.
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