Job 22:11

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

9But you refused to help widows. You were cruel to children who have no family. 10That is why you have so many troubles. That is why you shake with fear. It seems to you that you are in the dark and you cannot see. You feel as if a flood of deep water covers you. 12God lives high above us in heaven. Look up at the stars and see how high they are! 13So you say, “God does not know about us. He cannot judge us, because darkness hides us from him.

Job 22:11 word by word

אוֹ־חֹ֥שֶׁךְ לֹֽא־תִרְאֶ֑ה וְֽשִׁפְעַת־מַ֥יִם תְּכַסֶּֽךָּ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Or darknessחֹ֫שֶׁךְchôshek · darknessH2822
• thou canst not seeרָאָהrâ'âh · to see: seeH7200
• and abundanceשִׁפְעָהshiph‛âh · abundanceH8229
• of watersמַיmayim · waterH4325
• coverכָּסָהkâsâh · to coverH3680

Cross-references for Job 22:11

• Job 18:6His tent will be dark. The lamp that gives him light will stop burning.
• Job 19:8God has stopped me so that I cannot move forward. He has made my path dark so that I cannot see the way to go.
• Proverbs 4:19But the life of wicked people is like a very dark road. They cannot even see what causes them to fall.
• Isaiah 8:22They will look down at the earth, but they will only see trouble. Everywhere will be dark and people will have no hope. Then they will fall into complete darkness.
• Lamentations 3:2He has led me into the dark. There is no light, so I cannot see the right way.
• Joel 2:2That day will be sad and dark. There will be dark clouds. A great big army is coming. It comes across the sky like light in the morning. A great army like this has never come before. And it will never come again in future years.
• Matthew 8:12But other people who think that God's kingdom belongs to them will not be there. God's angels will throw them into the dark places that are far away from God. There those people will weep very much. They will bite their teeth together.’
• Psalms 42:7I hear your waterfalls make a noise like thunder. It seems like all that water is pouring over me and it knocks me down to the ground.
• Psalms 69:1Please rescue me, God, because the deep water has come up to my neck.
• Psalms 124:4They would have been too strong for us, like rivers of waters that covered us,
• Lamentations 3:54The water covered my head. Then I said, ‘I will soon die.’
• Jonah 2:3You threw me into the deep water, and I fell into the middle of the sea. The deep water covered me. You sent big waves to roll 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

Topics related to Job 22:11

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In the dictionaries

• Acquaint
• Decree
• Lift
• Sudden
• Thereby
• Abound; Abundance; Abundant; Abundantly
• Eliphaz (2)
• Job, Book of
• Eliphaz
• Wages

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