Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

He is driven from light into darkness,
And chased from the inhabited world.

King James Version

He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

Holman Bible

He is driven from light to darkness
and chased from the inhabited world.

International Standard Version

He is driven away from light to darkness, made to wander the landscape.

A Conservative Version

He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

American Standard Version

He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.

Amplified


“He is driven and propelled from light into darkness,
And chased from the inhabited world.

Bible in Basic English

He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.

Darby Translation

He is driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

Julia Smith Translation

They shall drive him out of light into darkness, and they shall exclude him from the habitable globe.

King James 2000

He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

Lexham Expanded Bible

"They thrust him from light into darkness, and they drive him out from [the] world.

Modern King James verseion

They drive him from light to darkness, and they make him flee from the world.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

he shall be driven from the light into darkness, and cast clean out of the world.

NET Bible

He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.

New Heart English Bible

He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

The Emphasized Bible

Let them thrust him out of light into darkness, Yea, out of the world, let them chase him;

Webster

He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

World English Bible

He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

Youngs Literal Translation

They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
He shall be driven
הדף 
Hadaph 
Usage: 11

אור 
'owr 
Usage: 122

חשׁך 
Choshek 
Usage: 78

and chased
נדד 
Nadad 
Usage: 28

Context Readings

Bildad's Second Speech

17 Memory of him perishes from the earth,
And he has no name abroad.
18 He is driven from light into darkness,
And chased from the inhabited world.
19 “He has no offspring or posterity among his people,
Nor any survivor where he sojourned.



Cross References

Job 10:22

The land of utter gloom as darkness itself,
Of deep shadow without order,
And which shines as the darkness.”

Job 20:8

“He flies away like a dream, and they cannot find him;
Even like a vision of the night he is chased away.

Job 3:20

“Why is light given to him who suffers,
And life to the bitter of soul,

Job 5:14

“By day they meet with darkness,
And grope at noon as in the night.

Job 11:14

If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away,
And do not let wickedness dwell in your tents;

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked is thrust down by his wrongdoing,
But the righteous has a refuge when he dies.

Isaiah 8:21-22

They will pass through the land hard-pressed and famished, and it will turn out that when they are hungry, they will be enraged and curse their king and their God as they face upward.

Isaiah 17:13-14

The nations rumble on like the rumbling of many waters,
But He will rebuke them and they will flee far away,
And be chased like chaff in the mountains before the wind,
Or like whirling dust before a gale.

Daniel 4:33

Immediately the word concerning Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled; and he was driven away from mankind and began eating grass like cattle, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven until his hair had grown like eagles’ feathers and his nails like birds’ claws.

Daniel 5:21

He was also driven away from mankind, and his heart was made like that of beasts, and his dwelling place was with the wild donkeys. He was given grass to eat like cattle, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven until he recognized that the Most High God is ruler over the realm of mankind and that He sets over it whomever He wishes.

Jude 1:13

wild waves of the sea, casting up their own shame like foam; wandering stars, for whom the black darkness has been reserved forever.

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