Job 23:17

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

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

Cross References

2 Kings 22:20

Therefore, I will gather you to your ancestors, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace; your eyes shall not see all the disaster that I will bring on this place.” They took the message back to the king.

Job 10:18

“Why did you bring me forth from the womb? Would that I had died before any eye had seen me,

Job 10:19

and were as though I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave.

Job 15:22

They despair of returning from darkness, and they are destined for the sword.

Job 18:18

They are thrust from light into darkness, and driven out of the world.

Job 18:6

The light is dark in their tent, and the lamp above them is put out.

Job 19:8

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

Job 22:11

or darkness so that you cannot see; a flood of water covers you.

Job 6:9

that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!

Isaiah 57:1

The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; the devout are taken away, while no one understands. For the righteous are taken away from calamity,