Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Or darkness -- thou dost not see, And abundance of waters doth cover thee.
New American Standard Bible
And an
King James Version
Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.
Holman Bible
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.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 22:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
Eliphaz's Third Speech
10 Therefore round about thee are snares, And trouble thee doth fear suddenly. 11 Or darkness -- thou dost not see, And abundance of waters doth cover thee. 12 Is not God high in heaven? And see the summit of the stars, That they are high.
Phrases
Cross References
Lamentations 3:54
Flowed have waters over my head, I have said, I have been cut off.
Psalm 69:1-2
To the Overseer. -- 'On the Lilies,' by David. Save me, O God, for come have waters unto the soul.
Psalm 124:4-5
Then the waters had overflowed us, The stream passed over our soul,
Jonah 2:3
When Thou dost cast me into the deep, Into the heart of the seas, Then the flood doth compass me, All Thy breakers and Thy billows have passed over me.
Job 5:14
By day they meet darkness, And as night -- they grope at noon.
Job 18:6
The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.
Job 18:18
They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out.
Job 19:8
My way He hedged up, and I pass not over, And on my paths darkness He placeth.
Job 38:34
Dost thou lift up to the cloud thy voice, And abundance of water doth cover thee?
Psalm 42:7
Deep unto deep is calling At the noise of Thy water-spouts, All Thy breakers and Thy billows passed over me.
Proverbs 4:19
The way of the wicked is as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble.
Isaiah 8:22
And unto the land it looketh attentively, And lo, adversity and darkness! -- Dimness, distress, and thick darkness is driven away, But not the dimness for which she is in distress!
Lamentations 3:2
Me He hath led, and causeth to go in darkness, and without light.
Joel 2:2-3
A day of darkness and thick darkness, A day of cloud and thick darkness, As darkness spread on the mountains, A people numerous and mighty, Like it there hath not been from of old, And after it there is not again -- till the years of generation and generation.
Matthew 8:12
but the sons of the reign shall be cast forth to the outer darkness -- there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.'