Job 19:8

New International Reader's Version

God has blocked my way, and I can’t get through. He has made my paths so dark I can’t see where I’m going.

Cross References

Job 23:17

But even the darkness of death won’t make me silent. When the darkness of the grave covers my face, I won’t be quiet.

Job 3:23

Why is life given to a man like me? God hasn’t told me what will happen to me. He has surrounded me with nothing but trouble.

Job 30:26

I hoped good things would happen, but something evil came. I looked for light, but all I saw was darkness.

Psalm 88:8

You have taken my closest friends away from me. You have made me sickening to them. I feel trapped and can’t escape.

Proverbs 4:19

But the way of those who do what is wrong is like deep darkness. They don’t know what makes them trip and fall.

Isaiah 50:10

Does anyone among you have respect for the Lord? Does anyone obey the message of the Lord’s servant? Let the person who walks in the dark trust in the Lord. Let the one who doesn’t have any light to guide them depend on their God.

Isaiah 59:9

We aren’t being treated fairly. We haven’t been set free yet. The God who always does what is right hasn’t come to help us. We look for light, but we see nothing but darkness. We look for brightness, but we walk in deep shadows.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to the Lord your God. Honor him before he sends darkness to cover the land. Do this before you trip and fall on the darkened hills. You hope that light will come. But he will turn it into thick darkness. He will change it to deep shadows.

Jeremiah 23:12

So their path will become slippery. They will be thrown out into darkness. There they will fall. I will bring trouble on them when the time to punish them comes,” announces the Lord.

Lamentations 3:5

He has surrounded me and attacked me. He has made me suffer bitterly. He has made things hard for me.

Lamentations 3:7

He has built walls around me, so I can’t escape. He has put heavy chains on me.

Lamentations 3:9

He has put up a stone wall to block my way. He has made my paths crooked.

Hosea 2:6

So I will block her path with bushes that have thorns. I’ll build a wall around her. Then she can’t go to her lovers.

Hosea 2:8

She wouldn’t admit that I was the one who gave her everything she had. I provided her with grain, olive oil and fresh wine. I gave her plenty of silver and gold. But she used it to make statues of Baal.

John 8:12

Jesus spoke to the people again. He said, “I am the light of the world. Anyone who follows me will never walk in darkness. They will have that light. They will have life.”

Joshua 24:7

But your people cried out to me for help. So I put darkness between you and the people of Egypt. I swept them into the sea. It completely covered them. Your own eyes saw what I did to them. After that, you lived in the desert for a long time.