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 are all around you, and sudden terror overwhelms you, 11 Or darkness, so that you cannot see,
And an abundance of water covers you.
12 "Is not God high in the heavens? See the highest stars, how lofty they are!

Cross References

Lamentations 3:54

water closed over my head; I said, 'I am lost.'

Psalm 69:1-2

Save me, O God! For the waters have come up to my neck.

Psalm 124:4-5

then the flood would have swept us away, the torrent would have gone over us;

Jonah 2:3

For you cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the flood surrounded me; all your waves and your billows passed over me.

Job 5:14

They meet with darkness in the daytime and grope at noonday as in the night.

Job 18:6

The light is dark in his tent, and his lamp above him is put out.

Job 18:18

He is thrust from light into darkness, and driven out of the world.

Job 19:8

He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.

Job 38:34

"Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that a flood of waters may cover you?

Psalm 42:7

Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves have gone over me.

Proverbs 4:19

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

Isaiah 8:22

And they will look to the earth, but behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish. And they will be thrust into thick darkness.

Lamentations 3:2

he has driven and brought me into darkness without any light;

Joel 2:2-3

a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness! Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains a great and powerful people; their like has never been before, nor will be again after them through the years of all generations.

Matthew 8:12

while the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

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