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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.

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.

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 For this cause nets are round your feet, and you are overcome with sudden fear. 11 Your light is made dark so that you are unable to see, and you are covered by a mass of waters. 12 Is not God as high as heaven? and see the stars, how high they are!

Cross References

Lamentations 3:54

Waters were flowing over my head; I said, I am cut off.

Psalm 69:1-2

Be my saviour, O God; because the waters have come in, even to my neck.

Jonah 2:3

For you have put me down into the deep, into the heart of the sea; and the river was round about me; all your waves and your rolling waters went over me.

Job 5:14

In the daytime it becomes dark for them, and in the sunlight they go feeling about as if it was night.

Job 18:6

The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out.

Job 18:18

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

Job 19:8

My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.

Job 38:34

Is your voice sent up to the cloud, so that you may be covered by the weight of waters?

Psalm 42:7

Deep is sounding to deep at the noise of your waterfalls; all your waves have gone rolling over me.

Proverbs 4:19

The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.

Isaiah 8:22

And he will be looking down on the earth, and there will be trouble and dark clouds, black night where there is no seeing.

Lamentations 3:2

By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light.

Joel 2:2-3

For a day of dark and deep shade is near, a day of cloud and black night: like a black cloud a great and strong people is covering the mountains; there has never been any like them and will not be after them again, from generation to generation.

Matthew 8:12

But the sons of the kingdom will be put out into the dark, and there will be weeping and cries of pain.

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