Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
And thou say, What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?
New American Standard Bible
Can He judge through the thick darkness?
King James Version
And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?
Holman Bible
Can He judge through thick darkness?
International Standard Version
You've asked, "What does God know? Can he sort through pitch black darkness?'
American Standard Version
And thou sayest, What doth God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?
Amplified
“You say, ‘What does God know [about me]?
Can He judge through the thick darkness?
Bible in Basic English
And you say, What knowledge has God? is he able to give decisions through the deep dark?
Darby Translation
And thou sayest, What doth God know? will he judge through the dark cloud?
Julia Smith Translation
And thou saidst How shall God know? Shall he judge in the cloud of darkness?
King James 2000
And you say, How does God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?
Lexham Expanded Bible
And you ask, 'What does God know? Can he judge through deep gloom?
Modern King James verseion
And you say, What does God know? Can He judge through the dark cloud?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
wilt thou therefore say, 'Tush, how should God know? Doth his dominion reach beyond the clouds?
NET Bible
But you have said, 'What does God know? Does he judge through such deep darkness?
New Heart English Bible
You say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?
The Emphasized Bible
Wilt thou say then, What doth GOD know? Out through a thick cloud, can he judge?
Webster
And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?
World English Bible
You say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?
Youngs Literal Translation
And thou hast said, 'What -- hath God known? Through thickness doth He judge?
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 22:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
Eliphaz's Third Speech
12 Is not God in the height of heaven? And behold the height of the stars, how high they are! 13 And thou say, What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness? 14 Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he does not see, and he walks on the vault of heaven.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 10:11
He says in his heart, God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.
Ezekiel 8:12
Then he said to me, Son of man, have thou seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, each man in his chambers of imagery? For they say, LORD does not see us. LORD has forsaken the land.
Psalm 59:7
Behold, they belch out with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, for [they say], Who hears?
Psalm 73:11
And they say, How does God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?
Isaiah 29:15
Woe to those who hide deep their counsel from LORD, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, Who sees us? and, Who knows us?
Ezekiel 9:9
Then he said to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness. For they say, LORD has forsaken the land, and LORD does not see.
Psalm 64:5
They encourage themselves in an evil purpose. They converse of laying snares secretly. They say, Who will see them?
Psalm 94:7-9
And they say, LORD will not see, nor will the God of Jacob consider.
Zephaniah 1:12
And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their lees, who say in their heart, LORD will not do good, nor will he do evil.