Job 38:19
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Where is the way to the home of light? Do you know where darkness resides,”
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“Where is the way to the home of light? Do you know where darkness resides,”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,”
King James Version · Public Domain“Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And as for darkness, where is the place thereof,”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Where <FI>is<Fi> this--the way light dwelleth? And darkness, where <FI>is<Fi> this--its place?”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 38:19 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 1:3And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
- Genesis 1:14And 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.
- Deuteronomy 4:19When 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.
- Job 38:12In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,
- Psalms 18:11He made darkness His hiding place, and storm clouds a canopy around Him.
- Psalms 104:20You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the beasts of the forest prowl.
- Psalms 105:28He sent darkness, and it became dark— yet they defied His words.
- Isaiah 45:7I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.
- 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.
- Ezekiel 32:8All the shining lights in the heavens I will darken over you, and I will bring darkness upon your land,’ declares the Lord GOD.
- Amos 4:13For 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 27:45From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.
- John 1:9The true Light who gives light to every man was coming into the world.
- 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.”
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