8 He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.
Job 19:8
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Lamentations 3:8–10
8 Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer. 9 He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked. 10 He is a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding in ambush.
Lamentations 3:1–3
1 I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of God’s wrath. 2 He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light. 3 Indeed, He keeps turning His hand against me all day long.
Lamentations 3:43–45
43 You have covered Yourself in anger and pursued us; You have killed without pity. 44 You have covered Yourself with a cloud that no prayer can pass through. 45 You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.
Job 30:12–14
12 The rabble arises at my right; they lay snares for my feet and build siege ramps against me. 13 They tear up my path; they profit from my destruction, with no one to restrain them. 14 They advance as through a wide breach; through the ruins they keep rolling in.
Job 22:13–15
13 Yet you say: ‘What does God know? Does He judge through thick darkness? 14 Thick clouds veil Him so He does not see us as He traverses the vault of heaven.’ 15 Will you stay on the ancient path that wicked men have trod?
Job 36:31–33
31 For by these He judges the nations and provides food in abundance. 32 He fills His hands with lightning and commands it to strike its mark. 33 The thunder declares His presence; even the cattle regard the rising storm.
Odes of Solomon 5:5–7
5 A cloud of darkness shall fall on their eyes; and an air of thick gloom shall darken them: (ODE) 6 And they shall have no light to see: they may not take hold upon me. (ODE) 7 Let their counsel become thick darkness, and what I have cunningly devised, let it return upon their… (ODE)
Psalms 88:7–9
7 Your wrath weighs heavily upon me; all Your waves have submerged me. Selah 8 You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape. 9 My eyes grow dim with grief. I call to You daily, O LORD; I spread out my hands…
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