American Standard Version
Job 22:11
11Or darkness, so that thou canst not see,And abundance of waters cover thee.
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
9Thou hast sent widows away empty, And the arms of the fatherless have been broken. 10Therefore snares are round about thee, And sudden fear troubleth thee, Or darkness, so that thou canst not see, And abundance of waters cover thee. 12Is not God in the height of heaven? And behold the height of the stars, how high they are! 13And thou sayest, What doth God know? 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
Cross-references for Job 22:11
- Job 18:6The light shall be dark in his tent, And his lamp above him shall be put out.
- Job 19:8He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.
- Proverbs 4:19The way of the wicked is as darkness: They know not at what they stumble.
- Isaiah 8:22and they shall look unto the earth, and, behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and into thick darkness they shall be driven away.
- Lamentations 3:2He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
- Joel 2:2a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, as the dawn spread upon the mountains; a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.
- Matthew 8:12but the sons of the kingdom shall be cast forth into the outer darkness: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
- Psalms 42:7Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterfalls: All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
- Psalms 69:1Save me, O God; For the waters are come in unto my soul.
- Psalms 124:4Then the waters had overwhelmed us, The stream had gone over our soul;
- Lamentations 3:54Waters flowed over my head; I said, I am cut off.
- Jonah 2:3For thou didst cast me into the depth, in the heart of the seas, And the flood was round about me; All thy waves and thy billows 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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