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Job 19:8
Job 19:8 is verse 8 of Job chapter 19, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.
King James Version
He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
World English Bible
He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths.
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Job 19:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible
6 then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.
7 Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.
8 He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.
9 He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.
10 He tears me down on every side until I am gone; He uproots my hope like a tree.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Job 3:23Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
Psalms 88:8You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape.
Lamentations 3:7He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.
Lamentations 3:9He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.
Hosea 2:6Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her path with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so she cannot find her way.
Joshua 24:7So your fathers cried out to the LORD, and He put darkness between you and the Egyptians, over whom He brought the sea and engulfed them. Your very eyes saw what I did to the Egyptians. Then you lived in the wilderness for a long time.
Proverbs 4:19But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.
Isaiah 50:10Who among you fears the LORD and obeys the voice of His Servant? Who among you walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the name of the LORD; let him lean on his God.
Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You wait for light, but He turns it into deep gloom and thick darkness.
Jeremiah 23:12“Therefore their path will become slick; they will be driven away into the darkness and fall into it. For I will bring disaster upon them in the year of their punishment,” declares the LORD.
John 8:12Once again, Jesus spoke to the people and said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”