Job 23:17

WEB

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

KJV

¹⁷Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.

BSB

¹⁷Yet I am not silenced by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.

FBV

¹⁷Yet I'm still here despite the dark—even though I can't see through the utter darkness.”

Extra References

Job 19:8

⁸He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

Isaiah 57:1

¹The righteous perish, and no one lays it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil.

²⁰‘Therefore behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the evil which I will bring on this place.’”’” So they brought this message back to the king.

Job 18:6

⁶The light will be dark in his tent. His lamp above him will be put out.

Job 18:18

¹⁸He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

Job 15:22

²²He doesn’t believe that he will return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword.

Job 6:9

⁹even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

Job 22:11

¹¹or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.