Job 19:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, And he hath set darkness in my paths.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, and He has set darkness upon my paths.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.

Common English Bible

⁸ He walled up my path so I can’t pass and put darkness on my trail,

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ He has hemmed in my path, and I cannot pass; he has added darkness to my difficult path.

Job 19:8 Cross References

Job 3:23

Why is light given to one who cannot see the way, whom God has fenced in?

Lamentations 3:7

He has walled me about so that I cannot escape; he has put heavy chains on me;

Lamentations 3:9

he has blocked my ways with hewn stones; he has made my paths crooked.

Psalm 88:8

You have caused my companions to shun me; you have made me a thing of horror to them. I am shut in so that I cannot escape;

Hosea 2:6

Therefore I will hedge up her way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her so that she cannot find her paths.

Proverbs 4:19

The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know what they stumble over.

John 8:12

Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life.”

Jeremiah 23:12

Therefore their way shall be to them like slippery paths in the darkness, into which they shall be driven and fall, for I will bring disaster upon them in the year of their punishment, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to the Lord your God before he brings darkness and before your feet stumble on the mountains at twilight; while you look for light, he turns it into gloom and makes it deep darkness.

Isaiah 50:10

Who among you fears the Lord and obeys the voice of his servant, who walks in darkness and has no light, yet trusts in the name of the Lord and relies upon his God?

Job 30:26

But when I looked for good, evil came, and when I waited for light, darkness came.

Joshua 24:7

When they cried out to the Lord, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians and made the sea come upon them and cover them, and your eyes saw what I did to Egypt. Afterward you lived in the wilderness a long time.

Job 23:17

If only I could vanish in darkness, and thick darkness would cover my face!

Lamentations 3:5

he has besieged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation;

Isaiah 59:9

Therefore justice is far from us, and deliverance does not reach us; we wait for light, but there is only darkness; and for brightness, but we walk in gloom.

Hosea 2:8

She did not know that it was I who gave her the grain, the wine, and the oil and who lavished upon her silver and gold that they used for Baal.