Job 23:17
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New International Version (©1984)
Yet I am not silenced by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Darkness is all around me; thick, impenetrable darkness is everywhere.

English Standard Version (©2001)
yet I am not silenced because of the darkness, nor because thick darkness covers my face.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
But I am not silenced by the darkness, Nor deep gloom which covers me.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
But I am not silenced by the dark or by the thick darkness that covers my face.

King James Bible
Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.

American King James Version
Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither has he covered the darkness from my face.

American Standard Version
Because I was not cut off before the darkness, Neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

Bible in Basic English
For I am overcome by the dark, and by the black night which is covering my face.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For I have not perished because of the darkness that hangs over me, neither hath the mist covered my face.

Darby Bible Translation
Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he hidden the gloom from me.

English Revised Version
Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

Webster's Bible Translation
Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.

World English Bible
Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

Young's Literal Translation
For I have not been cut off before darkness, And before me He covered thick darkness.

Geneva Study Bible

Because I was not cut off before the {l} darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.

(l) He shows the cause for his fear, which is, that he being in trouble sees no end, nor yet knows the cause.

Wesley's Notes

23:17 Because - God did not cut me off by death. Before - These miseries came upon me. Covered - By hiding me in the grave.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

17. Because I was not taken away by death from the evil to come (literally, "from before the face of the darkness," Isa 57:1). Alluding to the words of Eliphaz (Job 22:11), "darkness," that is, calamity.

cut off-rather, in the Arabic sense, brought to the land of silence; my sad complaint hushed in death [Umbreit]. "Darkness" in the second clause, not the same Hebrew word as in the first, "cloud," "obscurity." Instead of "covering the cloud (of evil) from my face," He "covers" me with it (Job 22:11).

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

23:13-17 As Job does not once question but that his trials are from the hand of God, and that there is no such thing as chance, how does he account for them? The principle on which he views them is, that the hope and reward of the faithful servants of God are only laid up in another life; and he maintains that it is plain to all, that the wicked are not treated according to their deserts in this life, but often directly the reverse. But though the obtaining of mercy, the first-fruits of the Spirit of grace, pledges a God, who will certainly finish the work which he has began; yet the afflicted believer is not to conclude that all prayer and entreaty will be in vain, and that he should sink into despair, and faint when he is reproved of Him. He cannot tell but the intention of God in afflicting him may be to produce penitence and prayer in his heart. May we learn to obey and trust the Lord, even in tribulation; to live or die as he pleases: we know not for what good ends our lives may be shortened or prolonged.


Job 10:18 'Why then have You brought me out of the womb? Would that I had died and no eye had seen me!
Job 10:19 'I should have been as though I had not been, Carried from womb to tomb.'
Job 19:8 "He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, And He has put darkness on my paths. (NASB ©1995)

Black Cover Covered Covering Covers Cut Dark Darkness Deep Face Gloom Hemmed Hidden Night Overcome Silenced Thick


Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.

cut off 6:9 2Ki 22:20 Isa 57:1

the darkness from 15:22 18:6,18 19:8 22:11

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