Job 23:17
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Yet I am not silenced by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.”
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“Yet I am not silenced by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Because I was not cut off before the darkness, Neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“For I have not been cut off before darkness, And before me He covered thick darkness.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 23:17 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 2 Kings 22:20‘Therefore I will indeed gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the calamity that I will bring on this place.’” So they brought her answer back to the king.
- Job 6:9that God would be willing to crush me, to unleash His hand and cut me off!
- Job 15:22He despairs of his return from darkness; he is marked for the sword.
- Job 18:6The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.
- Job 18:18He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.
- Job 19:8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.
- Job 22:11it is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.
- Isaiah 57:1The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; devout men are swept away, while no one considers that the righteous are guided from the presence of evil.
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