Job 22:11
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New International Version (©1984)
why it is so dark you cannot see, and why a flood of water covers you.

New Living Translation (©2007)
That is why you cannot see in the darkness, and waves of water cover you.

English Standard Version (©2001)
or darkness, so that you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Or darkness, so that you cannot see, And an abundance of water covers you.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
[That is why] darkness surrounds you and you cannot see and a flood of water covers you.

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

American King James Version
Or darkness, that you can not see; and abundance of waters cover you.

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

Bible in Basic English
Your light is made dark so that you are unable to see, and you are covered by a mass of waters.

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

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

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

Webster's Bible Translation
Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.

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

Young's Literal Translation
Or darkness -- thou dost not see, And abundance of waters doth cover thee.

Geneva Study Bible

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

(f) That is, manifold afflictions.

Wesley's Notes

22:11 Or - Either thou art troubled with fear of further evils or with the gross darkness of thy present state of misery. Waters - Variety of sore afflictions, which are frequently compared to water.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

11. 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).

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

22:5-14 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.


Job 5:14 "By day they meet with darkness, And grope at noon as in the night.
Job 38:34 "Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, So that an abundance of water will cover you?
Psalm 69:2 I have sunk in deep mire, and there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and a flood overflows me.
Psalm 124:5 Then the raging waters would have swept over our soul."
Lamentations 3:54 Waters flowed over my head; I said, "I am cut off!" (NASB ©1995)

Abundance Cover Covered Covers Dark Darkened Darkness Flood Floods Light Mass Unable Water Waters


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

darkness 18:6,18 19:8 Pr 4:19 Isa 8:22 La 3:2 Joe 2:2,3 Mt 8:12

abundance Ps 42:7 69:1,2 124:4 La 3:54 Jon 2:3

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