Parallel Verses

American Standard Version

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

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.

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 are round about thee, And sudden fear troubleth thee, 11 Or darkness, so that thou canst not see, And abundance of waters cover thee. 12 Is not God in the height of heaven? And behold the height of the 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

Save me, O God; For the waters are come in unto my soul.

Psalm 124:4-5

Then the waters had overwhelmed us, The stream had gone over our soul;

Jonah 2:3

For thou didst cast me into the depth, in the heart of the seas, And the flood was round about me; All thy waves and thy billows passed over me.

Job 5:14

They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.

Job 18:6

The light shall be dark in his tent, And his lamp above him shall be put out.

Job 18:18

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

Job 19:8

He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.

Job 38:34

Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover thee?

Psalm 42:7

Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterfalls: All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.

Proverbs 4:19

The way of the wicked is as darkness: They know not at what they stumble.

Isaiah 8:22

and they shall look unto the earth, and behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and into thick darkness they shall be driven away.

Lamentations 3:2

He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.

Joel 2:2-3

a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, as the dawn spread upon the mountains; a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.

Matthew 8:12

but the sons of the kingdom shall be cast forth into the outer darkness: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

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