Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

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

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.

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 All memory of him perishes from the earth;
he has no name anywhere.
18 He is driven from light to darkness
and chased from the inhabited world.
19 He has no children or descendants among his people,
no survivor where he used to live.



Cross References

Job 10:22

It is a land of blackness like the deepest darkness,
gloomy and chaotic,
where even the light is like the darkness.”

Job 20:8

He will fly away like a dream and never be found;
he will be chased away like a vision in the night.

Job 3:20

Why is light given to one burdened with grief,
and life to those whose existence is bitter,

Job 5:14

They encounter darkness by day,
and they grope at noon
as if it were night.

Job 11:14

if there is iniquity in your hand, remove it,
and don’t allow injustice to dwell in your tents—

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked one is thrown down by his own sin,
but the righteous one has a refuge in his death.

Isaiah 8:21-22

They will wander through the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged, and, looking upward, will curse their king and their God.

Isaiah 17:13-14

The nations rage like the raging of many waters.
He rebukes them, and they flee far away,
driven before the wind like chaff on the hills
and like tumbleweeds before a gale.

Daniel 4:33

At that moment the sentence against Nebuchadnezzar was executed. He was driven away from people. He ate grass like cattle, and his body was drenched with dew from the sky, until his hair grew like eagles’ feathers and his nails like birds’ claws.

Daniel 5:21

He was driven away from people, his mind was like an animal’s, he lived with the wild donkeys, he was fed grass like cattle, and his body was drenched with dew from the sky until he acknowledged that the Most High God is ruler over the kingdom of men and sets anyone He wants over it.

Jude 1:13

wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shameful deeds; wandering stars for whom the blackness of darkness is reserved forever!

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