Job 19:8
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.”
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“He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.”
King James Version · Public Domain“He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“My way He hedged up, and I pass not over, And on my paths darkness He placeth.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 19:8 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Joshua 24:7So your fathers cried out to the LORD, and He put darkness between you and the Egyptians, over whom He brought the sea and engulfed them. Your very eyes saw what I did to the Egyptians. Then you lived in the wilderness for a long time.
- Job 3:23Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
- Job 30:26But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness fell.
- Psalms 88:8You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape.
- Proverbs 4:19But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.
- Isaiah 50:10Who among you fears the LORD and obeys the voice of His Servant? Who among you walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the name of the LORD; let him lean on his God.
- Isaiah 59:9Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom.
- Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You wait for light, but He turns it into deep gloom and thick darkness.
- Jeremiah 23:12“Therefore their path will become slick; they will be driven away into the darkness and fall into it. For I will bring disaster upon them in the year of their punishment,” declares the LORD.
- Lamentations 3:5He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
- Lamentations 3:7He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.
- Lamentations 3:9He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.
- Hosea 2:6Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her path with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so she cannot find her way.
- Hosea 2:8For she does not acknowledge that it was I who gave her grain, new wine, and oil, who lavished on her silver and gold— which they crafted for Baal.
- John 8:12Once again, Jesus spoke to the people and said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”
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