Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

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

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.

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, snares are round about thee, and sudden fear will terrify thee; 11 Or darkness thou wilt not see; and abundance of waters shall cover thee. 12 Is not God high in the heavens? and see the head of the stars for they were lifted up.


Cross References

Lamentations 3:54

Waters were spread over my head; I said I was cut off.

Psalm 69:1-2

To the overseer upon the lilies; to David. Save me, O God, for the waters came even to the soul.

Psalm 124:4-5

Then the waters overflowed us, the torrent passed over our soul:

Jonah 2:3

And thou wilt cast me into the depth, into the heart of the seas; and the river will surround me: all thy breakers and thy waves passed over me.

Job 5:14

The days they will meet darkness, and they will grope in the noon day as night

Job 18:6

The light was darkened in his tent, and his lamp shall be extinguished for him.

Job 18:18

They shall drive him out of light into darkness, and they shall exclude him from the habitable globe.

Job 19:8

He walled up my path and I shall not pass, and he will set darkness upon my beaten paths.

Job 38:34

Wilt thou lift up thy voice to the cloud, and abundance of waters shall cover thee?

Psalm 42:7

Deep calling to deep at the voice of thy cataracts: all thy breakers and thy waves passed over me.

Proverbs 4:19

The way of the unjust as darkness: they shall not know in what they shall stumble.

Isaiah 8:22

And they shall look to the earth, and behold, straits and darkness and fainting of distress; and to darkness being removed.

Lamentations 3:2

He led me and he brought darkness and not light

Joel 2:2-3

A day of darkness and of thick darkness; a day of cloud and gloom as the morning spread upon the mountains: great and strong people; the like to him was not from forever, and after him there shall not be added even to the years of generation and generation.

Matthew 8:12

But the sons of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness; weeping shall be there, and gnashing of teeth.

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