Tree of Life Version
Job 22:11
11or why it is so dark that 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 crushed the arms of orphans. 10“That is why snares surround you, and why sudden fear terrifies you, or why it is so dark that you cannot see. and why a flood of water covers you. 12“Is not God in the heights of heaven? And see the lofty stars how high they are? 13Yet you say, ‘What does God know? Does He judge through such thick 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; the lamp above him goes out.
- Job 19:8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has shrouded my path in darkness.
- Proverbs 4:19The way of the wicked is like darkness. They do not know what makes them stumble.
- Isaiah 8:22or look to the earth, behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish, and they will be driven into darkness.
- Lamentations 3:2He has driven me and made me walk in darkness and not light.
- Joel 2:2A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, as blackness spreads over the mountains. A great and mighty people— from antiquity there was never anything like it, nor after it ever again from generation to generation.
- Matthew 8:12But the sons of the kingdom will be driven out into the outer darkness; in that place will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
- Psalms 42:7My God, my soul is downcast within me! Therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan and from the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mitzar.
- Psalms 69:1For the music director, on “Lilies,” of David.
- Psalms 124:4Then the waters would have engulfed us, the torrent would have swept over our soul,
- Lamentations 3:54Waters flowed over my head. I said, “I have been cut off!”
- Jonah 2:3saying: “From my distress I cried to Adonai and He answered me. From the belly of Sheol I cried for help and you heard my voice.
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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