Parallel Verses

The Emphasized Bible

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

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.

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, round about thee, are snares, and a dread startleth thee suddenly; 11 Or darkness - thou canst not see, and, a flood of waters, covereth thee. 12 Is not, GOD, in the height of the heavens? Behold, then, the head of the stars, that they are high.

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 waters have entered as far as the life;

Psalm 124:4-5

Then, the waters, had whelmed us, the torrent, gone over our soul;

Jonah 2:3

For thou hast cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and, a flood, enveloped me, - All thy breakers and thy rolling waves, over me, passed.

Job 5:14

By day, they encounter darkness, and, as though it were night, they grope at high noon.

Job 18:6

The light, hath darkened in his tent, Yea, his lamp above him, goeth out;

Job 18:18

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

Job 19:8

My way, hath he walled up, that I cannot pass, and, upon my paths, hath he made darkness rest;

Job 38:34

Canst thou lift up, to the thick cloud, thy voice, and the overflow of waters cover thee?

Psalm 42:7

Roaring deep unto roaring deep, is calling, at the voice of thy cataracts, All thy breakers and thy rolling waves, over me, have passed.

Proverbs 4:19

The way of the lawless, is like darkness, they know not, at what they stumble.

Isaiah 8:22

And unto the land, shall they look hard, And lo! distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish, driven away!

Lamentations 3:2

Me, hath he driven out and brought into darkness, and not light;

Joel 2:2-3

A day of obscurity and deep gloom, a day of cloud, and thick darkness, as dusk, spread over the mountains, - a people, many and bold, like whom, hath not been from age-past times, and, after whom, shall not be again unto the years of generation after generation.

Matthew 8:12

Whereas, the sons of the kingdom, shall be cast forth into the darkness outside, - There, will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

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