Job 5:14

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They encounter darkness by day and grope in the noonday as if it were night.

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  • Job 12:25 : 25 They grope in the darkness without light; He makes them stagger like a drunkard.
  • Isa 59:10 : 10 We grope along the wall like the blind; we grope as if we had no eyes. At midday, we stumble as if it were twilight; among the strong, we are like the dead.
  • Deut 28:29 : 29 At midday, you will grope around like a blind person in the dark. You will not prosper in your ways; you will be continually oppressed and robbed, with no one to save you.
  • Prov 4:19 : 19 The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know what makes them stumble.
  • Amos 8:9 : 9 'On that day,' declares the Lord God, 'I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight.'

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  • Job 24:13-17
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    13They are among those who rebel against the light; they do not recognize its ways nor stay on its paths.

    14At daybreak, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy, and at night, he is like a thief.

    15The adulterer waits for twilight, saying, 'No one will see me,' and he disguises his face.

    16In the darkness, they break into houses, but by day, they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.

    17For to them, the morning is like deep darkness; they are familiar with the terrors of the shadow of death.

  • Job 17:12
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    12They make night into day: ‘The light is near,’ they say, in the presence of darkness.

  • Job 12:25
    79%

    25They grope in the darkness without light; He makes them stagger like a drunkard.

  • Prov 4:19
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    19The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know what makes them stumble.

  • Isa 59:9-10
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    9Therefore, justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but behold, there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom.

    10We grope along the wall like the blind; we grope as if we had no eyes. At midday, we stumble as if it were twilight; among the strong, we are like the dead.

  • Job 5:13
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    13He traps the wise in their own craftiness, and the schemes of the twisted are quickly foiled.

  • Amos 5:20
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    20Won’t the day of the Lord be darkness and not light, gloom with no brightness in it?

  • Prov 7:9
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    9In the twilight, in the evening, in the dark of night and in deep darkness.

  • Job 3:4-6
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    75%

    4May that day be darkness; may God above not seek it, nor let light shine upon it.

    5Let darkness and deep shadow claim it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let blackness of the day terrify it.

    6As for that night, let thick darkness seize it; let it not be joined to the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.

  • Deut 28:29
    75%

    29At midday, you will grope around like a blind person in the dark. You will not prosper in your ways; you will be continually oppressed and robbed, with no one to save you.

  • Job 10:22
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    22A land of gloom like deep darkness, a land of shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.

  • Isa 17:14
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    14In the evening, sudden terror! Before morning, they are no more. This is the fate of those who plunder us and the lot of those who pillage us.

  • Isa 5:30
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    30On that day, they will roar over it like the roaring of the sea. And if one looks at the land, there is only darkness and distress; even the light is darkened by the clouds.

  • Isa 8:22
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    22Then they will look toward the earth and see only distress and darkness and fearful gloom, and they will be thrust into utter darkness.

  • Ps 139:11-12
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    11If I say, 'Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,'

    12even the darkness will not be dark to You; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to You.

  • Job 15:23
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    23He wanders about for food, asking, 'Where is it?' He knows that the day of darkness is ready at hand.

  • Mic 3:6
    73%

    6Therefore night will come over you—without visions; the darkness will fall—without divination. The sun will set for the prophets, and the day will grow dark for them.

  • Ps 82:5
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    5They do not know nor do they understand; they wander in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

  • Job 3:9
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    9Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light but have none, nor see the eyelids of the morning.

  • Job 34:22
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    22There is no darkness or deep shadow where evildoers can hide themselves.

  • Lam 3:2
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    2He has driven me away and brought me into darkness, not into light.

  • John 11:10
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    10'But if anyone walks at night, he stumbles, because there is no light in him.'

  • Job 18:5-6
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    5Indeed, the light of the wicked will be extinguished, and the flame of his fire will not shine.

    6The light in his tent will grow dark, and the lamp above him will be extinguished.

  • Ps 104:20
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    20You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the animals of the forest come out.

  • Jer 13:16
    72%

    16Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, and before your feet stumble on the darkening mountains. You hope for light, but He will turn it to gloom and thick darkness.

  • Job 22:11
    72%

    11It is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of waters covers you.

  • Prov 2:13
    72%

    13from those who abandon the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,

  • 1 Thess 5:4
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    4But you, brothers, are not in darkness, so that this day should surprise you like a thief.

  • Lam 3:6
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    6He has made me dwell in dark places, like those long dead.

  • Isa 29:15
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    15Woe to those who go to great depths to hide their plans from the LORD, who do their work in darkness and think, 'Who sees us? Who knows us?'

  • Eccl 5:17
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    17Behold, what I have seen is good and fitting: to eat and drink and to enjoy the good of all one's labor under the sun during the few days of life God has given him, for this is his reward.

  • Ps 55:10
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    10Confuse, O Lord, and divide their speech, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

  • Ps 107:10
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    10Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in misery and chains.

  • Job 19:8
    71%

    8He has blocked my path so I cannot pass; He has shrouded my ways with darkness.

  • Prov 4:16
    71%

    16For they cannot rest until they do evil; they are robbed of sleep until they make someone stumble.

  • Job 18:18
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    18He is driven from light into darkness and chased out of the world.

  • Job 34:26
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    26He strikes them down for their wickedness in a place where all can see.

  • Ps 64:5
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    5They shoot from hiding places at the innocent; they shoot suddenly, without fear.

  • Mic 2:1
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    1Woe to those who devise wickedness and plan evil on their beds! At dawn, they carry it out because they have the power to do it.

  • Rom 11:10
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    10"Let their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their backs be bent forever."

  • Zech 14:6
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    6On that day, there will be no light; the precious lights will diminish and freeze.