New King James Version
Job 22:11
11Or darkness so that you cannot see; And an abundance 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 Living Translation (NLT)That is why you cannot see in the darkness, and waves of water cover you.
Context of Job 22:11
9You have sent widows away empty, And the strength of the fatherless was crushed. 10Therefore snares are all around you, And sudden fear troubles you, Or darkness so that you cannot see; And an abundance of water covers you. 12“Is not God in the height of heaven? And see the highest stars, how lofty they are! 13And you say, ‘What does God know? Can He judge through the 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 is dark in his tent, And his lamp beside him is put out.
- Job 19:8He has fenced up my way, so that I cannot pass; And He has set darkness in my paths.
- Proverbs 4:19The way of the wicked is like darkness; They do not know what makes them stumble.
- Isaiah 8:22Then they will look to the earth, and see trouble and darkness, gloom of anguish; and they will be driven into darkness.
- Lamentations 3:2He has led me and made me walk In darkness and not in light.
- Joel 2:2A day of darkness and gloominess, A day of clouds and thick darkness, Like the morning clouds spread over the mountains. A people come, great and strong, The like of whom has never been; Nor will there ever be any such after them, Even for many successive generations.
- Matthew 8:12But the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
- Psalms 42:7Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls; All Your waves and billows have gone over me.
- Psalms 69:1Save me, O God! For the waters have come up to my neck.
- Psalms 124:4Then the waters would have overwhelmed us, The stream would have gone over our soul;
- Lamentations 3:54The waters flowed over my head; I said, “I am cut off!”
- Jonah 2:3For You cast me into the deep, Into the heart of the seas, And the floods surrounded me; All Your billows and Your 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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