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Job 22:11
11Or darkness, so that you cannot see, And a flood of water covers you.
Job 22:11 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.
- New International Version (NIV)why it is so dark you cannot see, and why a flood of water covers you.
- English Standard Version (ESV)or darkness, so that you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Or darkness so that you cannot see; And an abundance of water covers you.
Context of Job 22:11
9You have sent widows away empty-handed, And the arms (strength) of the fatherless have been broken. 10Therefore snares surround you, And sudden dread terrifies and overwhelms you; Or darkness, so that you cannot see, And a flood of water covers you. 12“Is not God in the height of heaven? And behold the distant stars, how high they are! 13You say, ‘What does God know [about me]? Can He judge through the thick darkness?
Read all of Job 22Job 22:11 word by word
אוֹ־חֹ֥שֶׁךְ לֹֽא־תִרְאֶ֑ה וְֽשִׁפְעַת־מַ֥יִם תְּכַסֶּֽךָּ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 22:11
- Job 18:6The light will be dark in his tent, And his lamp beside him will be put out.
- Job 19:8He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, And He has set darkness upon my paths.
- Proverbs 4:19The way of the wicked is like [deep] darkness; They do not know over what they stumble.
- Isaiah 8:22Then they will look to the earth, they will see only distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and they will be driven away into darkness and overwhelming night.
- Lamentations 3:2He has led me and made me walk In darkness and not in light.
- Joel 2:2A day of darkness and gloom, A day of clouds and of thick [dark] mist, Like the dawn spread over the mountains; There is a [pagan, hostile] people numerous and mighty, The like of which has never been before Nor will be again afterward Even for years of many generations.
- Matthew 8:12while the sons and heirs of the kingdom [the descendants of Abraham who will not recognize Me as Messiah] will be thrown out into the outer darkness; in that place [which is farthest removed from the kingdom] there will be weeping [in sorrow and pain] and grinding of teeth [in distress and anger].”
- Psalms 42:7Deep calls to deep at the [thundering] sound of Your waterfalls; All Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me.
- Psalms 69:1Save me, O God, For the waters have threatened my life [they have come up to my neck].
- Psalms 124:4Then the waters would have engulfed us, The torrent would have swept over our soul;
- Lamentations 3:54The waters ran down on my head; I said, “I am cut off (destroyed)!”
- Jonah 2:3For You cast me into the deep, Into the [deep] heart of the seas, And the currents surrounded and engulfed me; All Your breakers and billowing waves passed over me.
Commentaries on Job 22:11
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 11Or darkness, that thou canst not see - The sense of this passage, in the connection that the particle or gives it with the preceding verse, is not easy to be ascertained. To me it seems very probable that a letter has been lost from the first word; and that או o which we translate Or, was originally אור or Light. The copy used by the Septuagint had certainly this reading; and therefore they translate the verse thus: ; Thy Light is changed into darkness…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 11Or darkness - Darkness and night in the Scriptures are emblems of calamity. That thou canst not see - Deep and fearful darkness; total night, so that nothing is visible. That is, the heaviest calamities had overwhelmed him. And abundance of waters - An emblem, also, of calamities; Job 27:20; Psalm 69:1-2; Psalm 73:10.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 5-14Verses 5-14 Eliphaz brought heavy charges against Job, without reason for his accusations, except that Job was visited as he supposed God always visited every wicked man. He charges him with oppression, and that he did harm with his wealth and power in the time of his prosperity.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1111. that--so that thou. abundance--floods. Danger by floods is a less frequent image in this book than in the rest of the Old Testament (Job 11:16; 27:20).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 22
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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