Parallel Verses
King James 2000
And you say, How does God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?
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?'
A Conservative Version
And thou say, What does God know? Can he judge through the thick 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?
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 you say, How does God know? can he judge through the dark cloud? 14 Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he sees not; and he walks in the circle of heaven.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 10:11
He has said in his heart, God has forgotten: he hides his face; he will never see it.
Ezekiel 8:12
Then said he unto me, Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his idols? for they say, The LORD sees us not; the LORD has forsaken the land.
Psalm 59:7
Behold, they bellow out with their mouths: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, does hear?
Psalm 73:11
And they say, How does God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?
Isaiah 29:15
Woe unto them that go the depths to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who sees us? and who knows us?
Ezekiel 9:9
Then said he unto 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, The LORD has forsaken the land, and the LORD sees not.
Psalm 64:5
They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they talk of laying snares secretly; they say, Who shall see them?
Psalm 94:7-9
Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.
Zephaniah 1:12
And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and punish the men that are settled in their complacency: that say in their heart, The LORD will not do good, neither will he do evil.