Job 17:12

KJV1611 – Modern English

They change the night into day; the light is near because of darkness.

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  • Deut 28:67 : 67 In the morning you shall say, Would God it were evening! and at evening you shall say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of your heart with which you shall fear, and for the sight of your eyes which you shall see.
  • Job 7:3-4 : 3 So I am made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. 4 When I lie down, I say, 'When shall I arise, and the night be gone?' And I am full of tossing to and fro until the dawning of the day.
  • Job 7:13-14 : 13 When I say, 'My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint,' 14 then you scare me with dreams, and terrify me with visions:
  • Job 24:14-16 : 14 The murderer, rising with the light, kills the poor and needy, and in the night is like a thief. 15 The eye of the adulterer waits for twilight, saying, No eye shall see me, and disguises his face. 16 In the dark they break into houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime; they do not know the light.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 5:14
    80%

    14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at midday as if it were night.

  • Job 24:16-17
    2 verses
    79%

    16In the dark they break into houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime; they do not know the light.

    17For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death; if one knows them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

  • Job 17:11
    79%

    11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.

  • Job 17:13
    79%

    13If I wait, the grave is my house; I have made my bed in the darkness.

  • Ps 139:11-12
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    78%

    11If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.

    12Yes, the darkness does not hide from You, but the night shines as the day; the darkness and the light are both alike to You.

  • Job 10:21-22
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    77%

    21Before I go to the place from which I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

    22A land of darkness, like darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

  • Job 3:4-6
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    76%

    4Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, nor let the light shine upon it.

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

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

  • Amos 5:20
    76%

    20Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, with no brightness in it?

  • Job 24:13-14
    2 verses
    75%

    13They are among those who rebel against the light; they know not its ways, nor abide in its paths.

    14The murderer, rising with the light, kills the poor and needy, and in the night is like a thief.

  • Job 18:5-6
    2 verses
    75%

    5Indeed, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

    6The light shall be dark in his dwelling, and his lamp shall be put out with him.

  • Job 3:8-9
    2 verses
    75%

    8Let those curse it who curse the day, who are ready to stir up their lamentation.

    9Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it look for light, but have none; nor let it see the breaking of dawn:

  • Job 23:17
    75%

    17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, nor has he covered the darkness from my face.

  • Job 12:22
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    22He reveals deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.

  • Eccl 12:2-3
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    2While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars are not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain.

    3In the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those who look out of the windows are darkened,

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

  • Jer 13:16
    74%

    16Give glory to the LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.

  • Prov 7:9
    74%

    9In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night;

  • Job 38:19
    74%

    19Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And as for darkness, where is its place,

  • Isa 17:14
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    14And behold, at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of those who spoil us, and the lot of those who rob us.

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

  • Isa 8:22
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    22And they shall look to the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and they shall be driven into darkness.

  • Rom 13:12
    73%

    12The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.

  • Job 12:25
    73%

    25They grope in the dark without light, and He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

  • Ps 74:16
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    16The day is Yours, the night also is Yours: You have prepared the light and the sun.

  • Ps 104:20
    73%

    20You make darkness, and it is night: in which all the beasts of the forest creep forth.

  • Zech 14:6
    73%

    6And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:

  • Isa 5:30
    73%

    30And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one looks to the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened by the clouds of the heavens.

  • Mic 3:6
    73%

    6Therefore night shall be unto you, that you shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that you shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.

  • Job 19:8
    73%

    8He has fenced up my way so that I cannot pass, and He has set darkness in my paths.

  • Ezek 32:8
    72%

    8All the bright lights of the sky will I make dark over you, and set darkness upon your land, says the Lord GOD.

  • Lam 3:6
    72%

    6He has set me in dark places, like those long dead.

  • Job 17:7
    72%

    7My eye also is dim because of sorrow, and all my members are like a shadow.

  • Job 29:3
    72%

    3When His lamp shone upon my head, and by His light I walked through darkness;

  • Amos 8:9
    72%

    9And it shall come to pass in that day, declares the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in broad daylight:

  • Ps 18:28
    72%

    28For you will light my lamp: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.

  • Isa 13:10
    72%

    10For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light: the sun will be darkened in its rising, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.

  • Joel 3:15
    72%

    15The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.

  • Job 4:20
    72%

    20They are destroyed from morning to evening; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.

  • John 12:35
    72%

    35Then Jesus said to them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you; for he who walks in darkness does not know where he is going.

  • Job 7:4
    72%

    4When I lie down, I say, 'When shall I arise, and the night be gone?' And I am full of tossing to and fro until the dawning of the day.

  • John 11:10
    72%

    10But if one walks in the night, he stumbles, because there is no light in him.