Job 38:19

World English Bible (2000)

"What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 1:3-4 : 3 God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.
  • Gen 1:14-18 : 14 God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years; 15 and let them be for lights in the expanse of sky to give light on the earth;" and it was so. 16 God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of sky to give light to the earth, 18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.
  • Deut 4:19 : 19 and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.
  • Job 38:12-13 : 12 "Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place; 13 that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?
  • Ps 18:11 : 11 He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
  • Ps 104:20 : 20 You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals of the forest prowl.
  • Ps 105:28 : 28 He sent darkness, and made it dark. They didn't rebel against his words.
  • Isa 45:7 : 7 I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.
  • Jer 13:16 : 16 Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.
  • Ezek 32:8 : 8 All the bright lights of the sky will I make dark over you, and set darkness on your land, says the Lord Yahweh.
  • Amos 4:13 : 13 For, behold, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the Earth: Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name."
  • Matt 27:45 : 45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.
  • John 1:9 : 9 The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.
  • John 8:12 : 12 Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life."

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 38:20-22
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    20that you should take it to its bound, that you should discern the paths to its house?

    21Surely you know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great!

    22Have you entered the treasuries of the snow, or have you seen the treasures of the hail,

  • Job 38:24-25
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    24By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind scattered on the earth?

    25Who has cut a channel for the flood water, or the path for the thunderstorm;

  • Job 38:16-18
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    16"Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?

    17Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

    18Have you comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if you know it all.

  • Job 28:12
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    12"But where shall wisdom be found? Where is the place of understanding?

  • Job 28:20
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    20Where then does wisdom come from? Where is the place of understanding?

  • Job 3:23
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    23Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?

  • Job 10:21-22
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    21before I go where I shall not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

    22the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.'"

  • Job 22:11-13
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    11or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.

    12"Isn't God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are!

    13You say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

  • Job 37:18-19
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    18Can you, with him, spread out the sky, which is strong as a cast metal mirror?

    19Teach us what we shall tell him, for we can't make our case by reason of darkness.

  • Job 38:2
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    2"Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

  • Ps 139:11-12
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    11If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; the light around me will be night;"

    12even the darkness doesn't hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.

  • Job 38:4
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    4"Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.

  • Job 19:8
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    8He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

  • Job 28:3
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    3Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.

  • Job 38:35-36
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    35Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go? Do they report to you, 'Here we are?'

    36Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?

  • Job 38:33
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    33Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish its dominion over the earth?

  • Job 34:22
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    22There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

  • Job 29:3
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    3when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,

  • Job 37:15-16
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    15Do you know how God controls them, and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?

    16Do you know the workings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge?

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

  • Job 38:12-13
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    12"Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place;

    13that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?

  • Job 25:3
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    3Can his armies be counted? On whom does his light not arise?

  • Dan 2:22
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    22he reveals the deep and secret things; he knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.

  • Prov 4:19
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    19The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know what they stumble over.

  • Job 21:28
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    28For you say, 'Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?'

  • Job 11:8
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    8They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know?

  • Job 17:12
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    12They change the night into day, saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.

  • Job 23:8
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    8"If I go east, he is not there; if west, I can't find him;

  • Job 23:17
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    17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

  • Job 18:6
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    6The light shall be dark in his tent. His lamp above him shall be put out.

  • Job 3:4-5
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    4Let that day be darkness. Don't let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.

    5Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.

  • Job 3:9
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    9Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

  • Job 28:23
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    23"God understands its way, and he knows its place.

  • Lam 3:2
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    2He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.

  • Isa 59:9
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    9Therefore is justice far from us, neither does righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.

  • Job 20:4
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    4Don't you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth,