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Job 19:8

Conservative English Version

God has me trapped with a wall of darkness

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God has covered me with darkness, but I refuse to be silent.

Why do I go on living when God has me surrounded, and I can't see the road?

But when I beg for relief and light, all I receive are disaster and darkness.

You have made my friends turn in horror from me. I am a prisoner who cannot escape,

The lifestyle of the wicked is like total darkness, and they will never know what makes them stumble.

None of you respect the LORD or obey his servant. You walk in the dark instead of the light; you don't trust the name of the LORD your God.

No one has come to defend us or to bring about justice. We hoped for a day of sunshine, but all we found was a dark, gloomy night.

You hope for light, but God is sending darkness. Evening shadows already deepen in the hills. So return to God and confess your sins to him before you trip and fall.

Now I will punish you with disaster, and you will slip and fall in the darkness. I, the LORD, have spoken.

He attacked and surrounded me with hardships and trouble;

God built a fence around me that I cannot climb over, and he chained me down.

God put big rocks in my way and made me follow a crooked path.

I, the LORD, will build a fence of thorns to block her path.

She didn't know that her grain, wine, and olive oil were gifts from me, as were the gold and silver she used in worshiping Baal.

Once again Jesus spoke to the people. This time he said, "I am the light for the world! Follow me, and you won't be walking in the dark. You will have the light that gives life."

Your people cried to me for help, so I put a dark cloud between them and the Egyptians. Then I opened up the sea and let your people walk across on dry ground. But when the Egyptians tried to follow, I commanded the sea to swallow them, and they drowned while you watched. You lived in the desert for a long time,




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