Job 22:11

In 11 translations

BSB

it is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.

KJV

Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.

WEB

or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.

ASV

Or darkness, so that thou canst not see, And abundance of waters cover thee.

LSV

Or darkness—you do not see, || And abundance of waters covers you.

YLT

Or darkness — thou dost not see, And abundance of waters doth cover thee.

DBY

Or darkness, that thou canst not see, and floods of waters cover thee.

DRC

And didst thou think that thou shouldst not see darkness, and that thou shouldst not be covered with the violence of overflowing waters?

GNV

Or darkenes that thou shouldest not see, and abundance of waters shall couer thee.

JPS

Or darkness, that thou canst not see, and abundance of waters cover thee.

LXXE

The light has proved darkness to thee, and water has covered thee on thy lying down.

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Original-language editions

WLC

אוֹ־חֹ֥שֶׁךְ לֹֽא־תִרְאֶ֑ה וְֽשִׁפְעַת־מַ֥יִם תְּכַסֶּֽךָּ׃

LXX-Br

Τὸ φῶς σοι σκότος ἀπέβη, κοιμηθέντα δὲ ὕδωρ σε ἐκάλυψε.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Psalms 69:1–2Save me, O God, for the waters are up to my neck. I have sunk into the miry depths, where there is no footing; I have drifted into deep waters, where the flood engulfs me.
• Lamentations 3:54The waters flowed over my head, and I thought I was going to die.
• Jonah 2:3For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current swirled about me; all Your breakers and waves swept over me.
• Job 18:6The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.
• Job 19:8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.
• Job 38:34Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?
• Job 18:18He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.
• Job 5:14They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.
• Joel 2:2–3a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like the dawn overspreading the mountains a great and strong army appears, such as never was of old, nor will ever be in ages to come. Before them a fire…
• Psalms 124:4–5then the floods would have engulfed us, then the torrent would have overwhelmed us, then the raging waters would have swept us away.
• Lamentations 3:2He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light.
• Matthew 8:12But the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
• Proverbs 4:19But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.
• Psalms 42:7Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and waves have rolled over me.
• Isaiah 8:22Then they will look to the earth and see only distress and darkness and the gloom of anguish. And they will be driven into utter darkness.

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