Job 38:19

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Job 38:17–21 · Berean Standard Bible

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

18 Have you surveyed the extent of the earth? Tell Me, if you know all this.

19 Where is the way to the home of light? Do you know where darkness resides,

20 so you can lead it back to its border? Do you know the paths to its home?

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

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Job 38:12

In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,

Job 38:13

that it might spread to the ends of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?

Genesis 1:3

And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

Genesis 1:4

And God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness.

Genesis 1:14

And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to distinguish between the day and the night, and let them be signs to mark the seasons and days and years.

Genesis 1:15

And let them serve as lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth.” And it was so.

Genesis 1:16

God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night. And He made the stars as well.

Genesis 1:17

God set these lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth,

Genesis 1:18

to preside over the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.

Deuteronomy 4:19

When you look to the heavens and see the sun and moon and stars—all the host of heaven—do not be enticed to bow down and worship what the LORD your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.

Isaiah 45:7

I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.

John 1:9

The true Light who gives light to every man was coming into the world.

John 8:12

Once 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.”

Psalms 18:11

He made darkness His hiding place, and storm clouds a canopy around Him.

Psalms 104:20

You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the beasts of the forest prowl.

Psalms 105:28

He sent darkness, and it became dark— yet they defied His words.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give 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.

Ezekiel 32:8

All the shining lights in the heavens I will darken over you, and I will bring darkness upon your land,’ declares the Lord GOD.

Amos 4:13

For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth— the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name.”

Matthew 27:45

From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.