KJV King James Version
Or darkness, [that] thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Job 22:11
Or darkness, [that] thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
it is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.
WEB World English Bible
or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.
ASV American Standard Version
Or darkness, so that thou canst not see, And abundance of waters cover thee.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Or darkness—thou dost not see, And abundance of waters doth cover thee.
Surrounding context — Job 22
8 But [as for] the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.
9 Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
10 Therefore snares [are] round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;
11 Or darkness, [that] thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.
12 [Is] not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!
13 And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?
14 Thick clouds [are] a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.
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Psalm 69:1-2To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, [A Psalm] of David. Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto [my] soul.Lamentations 3:54Waters flowed over mine head; [then] I said, I am cut off.Jonah 2:3For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.Psalm 124:4-5Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:Job 19:8He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.Lamentations 3:2He hath led me, and brought [me into] darkness, but not [into] light.Job 5:14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.Psalm 42:7Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.Matthew 8:12But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.Proverbs 4:19The way of the wicked [is] as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.Job 38:34Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?Job 18:18He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.Isaiah 8:22And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and [they shall be] driven to darkness.Job 18:6The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.Joel 2:2-3A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, [even] to the years of many generations.
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