Job 19:8

New English Translation

He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness over my paths.

Cross References

Job 23:17

Yet I have not been silent because of the darkness, because of the thick darkness that covered my face.

Job 3:23

Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?

Job 30:26

But when I hoped for good, trouble came; when I expected light, then darkness came.

Psalm 88:8

You cause those who know me to keep their distance; you make me an appalling sight to them. I am trapped and cannot get free.

Proverbs 4:19

The way of the wicked is like gloomy darkness; they do not know what causes them to stumble.

Isaiah 50:10

Who among you fears the Lord? Who obeys his servant? Whoever walks in deep darkness, without light, should trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God.

Isaiah 59:9

For this reason deliverance is far from us and salvation does not reach us. We wait for light, but see only darkness; we wait for a bright light, but live in deep darkness.

Jeremiah 13:16

Show the Lord your God the respect that is due him. Do it before he brings the darkness of disaster. Do it before you stumble into distress like a traveler on the mountains at twilight. Do it before he turns the light of deliverance you hope for into the darkness and gloom of exile.

Jeremiah 23:12

So the paths they follow will be dark and slippery. They will stumble and fall headlong. For I will bring disaster on them. A day of reckoning is coming for them.” The Lord affirms it!

Lamentations 3:5

He has besieged and surrounded me with bitter hardship.

Lamentations 3:7

He has walled me in so that I cannot get out; he has weighted me down with heavy prison chains.

Lamentations 3:9

He has blocked every road I take with a wall of hewn stones; he has made every path impassable. ד (Dalet)

Hosea 2:6

Therefore, I will soon fence her in with thorns; I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way.

Hosea 2:8

Yet until now she has refused to acknowledge that I was the one who gave her the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil; and that it was I who lavished on her the silver and gold – which they used in worshiping Baal!

John 8:12

Then Jesus spoke out again, “I am the light of the world. The one who follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

Joshua 24:7

Your fathers cried out for help to the Lord; he made the area between you and the Egyptians dark, and then drowned them in the sea. You witnessed with your very own eyes what I did in Egypt. You lived in the wilderness for a long time.