New English Translation
Job 22:11
11why it is so dark you cannot see, and why 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 sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the orphans you crushed. 10That is why snares surround you, and why sudden fear terrifies you, why it is so dark you cannot see, and why a flood of water covers you. 12“Is not God on high in heaven? And see the lofty stars, how high they are! 13But you have said, ‘What does God know? Does he judge through such deep darkness?
Read all of Job 22Job 22:11 word by word
אוֹ־חֹ֥שֶׁךְ לֹֽא־תִרְאֶ֑ה וְֽשִׁפְעַת־מַ֥יִם תְּכַסֶּֽךָּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 22:11
- Job 18:6The light in his tent grows dark; his lamp above him is extinguished.
- Job 19:8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness over my paths.
- Proverbs 4:19The way of the wicked is like gloomy darkness; they do not know what causes them to stumble.
- Isaiah 8:22When one looks out over the land, he sees distress and darkness, gloom and anxiety, darkness and people forced from the land.
- Lamentations 3:2He drove me into captivity and made me walk in darkness and not light.
- Joel 2:2It will be a day of dreadful darkness, a day of foreboding storm clouds, like blackness spread over the mountains. It is a huge and powerful army – there has never been anything like it ever before, and there will not be anything like it for many generations to come!
- Matthew 8:12but the sons of the kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
- Psalms 42:7One deep stream calls out to another at the sound of your waterfalls; all your billows and waves overwhelm me.
- Psalms 69:1Deliver me, O God, for the water has reached my neck.
- Psalms 124:4The water would have overpowered us; the current would have overwhelmed us.
- Lamentations 3:54The waters closed over my head; I thought I was about to die. ק (Qof)
- Jonah 2:3You threw me into the deep waters, into the middle of the sea; the ocean current engulfed me; all the mighty waves you sent swept 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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