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

New Living Translation
Darkness is all around me; thick, impenetrable darkness is everywhere.

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

Berean Standard Bible
Yet I am not silenced by the darkness, 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.

New King James Version
Because I was not cut off from the presence of darkness, And He did not hide deep darkness from my face.

New American Standard Bible
But I am not destroyed by darkness, Nor by deep gloom which covers me.

NASB 1995
But I am not silenced by the darkness, Nor deep gloom which covers me.

NASB 1977
But I am not silenced by the darkness, Nor deep gloom which covers me.

Legacy Standard Bible
But I am not silenced by the darkness, Nor thick darkness which covers me.

Amplified Bible
But I am not silenced by the darkness [of these woes that fell on me], Nor by the thick darkness which covers my face.

Christian Standard Bible
Yet I am not destroyed by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Yet I am not destroyed by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Because I was not silenced by the presence of the darkness and by the presence of the veil of gloom

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For I knew not that darkness would come upon me, and thick darkness has covered me before my face.

Contemporary English Version
God has covered me with darkness, but I refuse to be silent.

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

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

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

International Standard Version
Nevertheless, I haven't been silenced because of the darkness, even when thick darkness obscures my vision."

JPS Tanakh 1917
Because I was not cut off before the darkness, Neither did He cover the thick darkness from my face.

Literal Standard Version
For I have not been cut off before darkness, | And before me He covered thick darkness.”

Majority Standard Bible
Yet I am not silenced by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.

New American Bible
Yes, would that I had vanished in darkness, hidden by the thick gloom before me.

NET Bible
Yet I have not been silent because of the darkness, because of the thick darkness that covered my face.

New Revised Standard Version
If only I could vanish in darkness, and thick darkness would cover my face!

New Heart English Bible
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.

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Context
Job Longs for God
16God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me. 17Yet I am not silenced by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.

Cross References
Job 10:18
Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!

Job 10:19
If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave.

Job 19:8
He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.


Treasury of Scripture

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

cut off

Job 6:9
Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

2 Kings 22:20
Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again.

Isaiah 57:1
The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.

the darkness from

Job 15:22
He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.

Job 18:6,18
The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him…

Job 19:8
He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

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Job 23
1. Job longs to appear before God
6. in confidence of his mercy
8. God, who is invisible, observes our ways
11. Job's innocence
13. God's decree is immutable














Verse 17. - Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face. Job complains of two things:

(1) That he was not cut off (i.e. removed from earth) before the great darkness fell upon his life (comp. Job 3:11-13).

(2) That he was not "covered,' i.e. sheltered and protected, by the love and care of God when the dark days came.

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Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Yet
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

I am not
לֹ֣א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

silenced
נִ֭צְמַתִּי (niṣ·mat·tî)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 6789: To put an end to, exterminate

by
מִפְּנֵי־ (mip·pə·nê-)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 6440: The face

the darkness,
חֹ֑שֶׁךְ (ḥō·šeḵ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2822: The dark, darkness, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness

by the thick darkness
אֹֽפֶל׃ (’ō·p̄el)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 652: Darkness, gloom

that covers
כִּסָּה־ (kis·sāh-)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3680: To plump, fill up hollows, to cover

my face.
וּ֝מִפָּנַ֗י (ū·mip·pā·nay)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 6440: The face


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