Job 22:11
9 Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
10 Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;
Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.
12 Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!
13 And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- it is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.
- KJV
- Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.
- WEB
- or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.
- ASV
- Or darkness, so that thou canst not see, And abundance of waters cover thee.
- DARBY
- Or darkness, that thou canst not see, and floods of waters cover thee.
- BLB
- or darkness you cannot see, and an abundance of waters covers you.
- ÅB
- Eller ser du ikke mørket og den vannflom som dekker deg?
- OTB
- eller mørke så du ikke kan se,
og en flom av vann dekker deg. - B1930
- Eller ser du ikke mørket og den vannflom som dekker dig?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 69:1–2
Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.
Read in contextLamentations 3:54
Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
Read in contextJonah 2:3
For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.
Read in contextLamentations 3:2
He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
Read in contextJob 38:34
Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?
Read in contextMatthew 8:12
But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Read in contextJob 5:14
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
Read in contextJob 18:18
He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
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