Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Or darkness, so that you cannot see,
And an abundance of water covers you.

King James Version

Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.

Holman Bible

or darkness, so you cannot see,
and a flood of water covers you.

International Standard Version

you see nothing but darkness, and a flood of troubles drowns you."

A Conservative Version

or darkness, so that thou cannot see, and abundance of waters cover thee.

American Standard Version

Or darkness, so that thou canst not see, And abundance of waters cover thee.

Amplified


Or darkness, so that you cannot see,
And a flood of water covers you.

Bible in Basic English

Your light is made dark so that you are unable to see, and you are covered by a mass of waters.

Darby Translation

Or darkness, that thou canst not see, and floods of waters cover thee.

Julia Smith Translation

Or darkness thou wilt not see; and abundance of waters shall cover thee.

King James 2000

Or darkness, that you can not see; and abundance of waters cover you.

Lexham Expanded Bible

or [it is so] dark you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.

Modern King James verseion

or darkness, so that you cannot see; and a flood of waters covers you.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Shouldest thou then see no darkness? Should not the water flood run over thee?

NET Bible

why it is so dark you cannot see, and why a flood of water covers you.

New Heart English Bible

or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.

The Emphasized Bible

Or darkness - thou canst not see, and, a flood of waters, covereth thee.

Webster

Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.

World English Bible

or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.

Youngs Literal Translation

Or darkness -- thou dost not see, And abundance of waters doth cover thee.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
חשׁך 
Choshek 
Usage: 78

that thou canst not see
ראה 
Ra'ah 
Usage: 1308

and abundance
שׁפעה 
Shiph`ah 
Usage: 6

כּסה 
Kacah 
Usage: 152

References

Smith

Context Readings

Eliphaz's Third Speech

10 “Therefore snares surround you,
And sudden dread terrifies you,
11 Or darkness, so that you cannot see,
And an abundance of water covers you.
12 “Is not God in the height of heaven?
Look also at the distant stars, how high they are!


Cross References

Lamentations 3:54

Waters flowed over my head;
I said, “I am cut off!”

Psalm 69:1-2

For the choir director; according to Shoshannim. A Psalm of David.
Save me, O God,
For the waters have threatened my life.

Psalm 124:4-5

Then the waters would have engulfed us,
The stream would have swept over our soul;

Jonah 2:3

“For You had cast me into the deep,
Into the heart of the seas,
And the current engulfed me.
All Your breakers and billows passed over me.

Job 5:14

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

Job 18:6

“The light in his tent is darkened,
And his lamp goes out above him.

Job 18:18

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

Job 19:8

“He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass,
And He has put darkness on my paths.

Job 38:34

“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds,
So that an abundance of water will cover you?

Psalm 42:7

Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls;
All Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me.

Proverbs 4:19

The way of the wicked is like darkness;
They do not know over what they stumble.

Isaiah 8:22

Then they will look to the earth, and behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and they will be driven away into darkness.

Lamentations 3:2

He has driven me and made me walk
In darkness and not in light.

Joel 2:2-3

A day of darkness and gloom,
A day of clouds and thick darkness.
As the dawn is spread over the mountains,
So there is a great and mighty people;
There has never been anything like it,
Nor will there be again after it
To the years of many generations.

Matthew 8:12

but the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into the outer darkness; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

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