Job 22:13

Eliphaz's Third Speech

¹² "[Is] not God [in the] height of [the] heavens? But see how lofty are {the highest stars}. ¹³ And you ask, 'What does God know? Can he judge through deep gloom? ¹⁴ Thick clouds [are] a covering for him, so that he does not see; and he walks about on [the] dome of heaven.'

Thick Cloud

Deep Darkness

Job

Psalm 10:11

He says in his heart, "God has forgotten. He has hidden his face. He never sees."

Ezekiel 8:12

And he said to me, "Have you seen, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel [are] doing in the dark, each in the inner rooms of his idol, for [they are] saying, 'Yahweh [is] not seeing us; Yahweh has abandoned the land.'"

Psalm 59:7

Look, they pour out [talk] with their mouth. Swords [are] on their lips, for [they say], "Who hears?"

Psalm 73:11

And they say, "How does God know?" and, "Does the Most High have knowledge?"

Isaiah 29:15

Ah! Those who make a plan deep, to hide [it] from Yahweh, and their deeds are in a dark place. And they say, "Who sees us? And who knows us?"

Ezekiel 9:9

And he said to me, "The guilt of the house of Israel and Judah [is] {exceedingly} great, and the land is filled with bloodguilt, and the city is full of injustice. For they say Yahweh abandoned the land, and {Yahweh does not see}.

Psalm 64:5

They encourage themselves [in the] evil matter. They talk of secretly laying snares. They say, "Who will see them?"

Psalm 94:7-9

while they say, "Yah does not see," and "The God of Jacob does not pay attention."

Zephaniah 1:12

And it shall be [that] at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men {whose senses are dulled from drinking}, who say in their hearts, 'Yahweh will not do good, nor will he do evil.'