Job 23:17

Bible in Basic English 1965

For I am overcome by the dark, and by the black night which is covering my face.

Cross References

2 Kings 22:20

For this cause I will let you go to your fathers and be put in your last resting-place in peace, and your eyes will not see all the evil which I will send on this place. So they took this news back to the king.

Job 10:18

Why then did you make me come out of my mother's body? It would have been better for me to have taken my last breath, and for no eye to have seen me,

Job 10:19

And for me to have been as if I had not been; to have been taken from my mother's body straight to my last resting-place.

Job 15:22

He has no hope of coming safe out of the dark, and his fate will be the sword;

Job 18:18

He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.

Job 18:6

The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out.

Job 19:8

My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.

Job 22:11

Your light is made dark so that you are unable to see, and you are covered by a mass of waters.

Job 6:9

If only he would be pleased to put an end to me; and would let loose his hand, so that I might be cut off!

Isaiah 57:1

The upright man goes to his death, and no one gives a thought to it; and god-fearing men are taken away, and no one is troubled by it; for the upright man is taken away because of evil-doing, and goes into peace.