Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

wilt thou therefore say, 'Tush, how should God know? Doth his dominion reach beyond the clouds?

New American Standard Bible

“You say, ‘What does God know?
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

Yet you say: “What does God know?
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?

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?

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

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And thou sayest

Usage: 0

אל 
'el 
Usage: 114

can he judge
שׁפט 
Shaphat 
Usage: 203

Verse Info

Context Readings

Eliphaz's Third Speech

12 Now because that God is higher than the heavens, and because thou seest the stars are so high, 13 wilt thou therefore say, 'Tush, how should God know? Doth his dominion reach beyond the clouds? 14 Tush, the clouds cover him that he may not see, for he dwelleth in heaven.'

Cross References

Psalm 10:11

He hath said in his heart, "Tush, God hath forgotten, he hath turned away his face, so that he will never see it."

Ezekiel 8:12

Then said he unto me, "Thou son of man, hast thou seen what the Senators of the house of Israel do secretly, everyone in his chamber? For they say, 'Tush, the LORD seeth us not, the LORD regardeth not the world.'"

Psalm 59:7

Behold, they speak against me with their mouth, and swords are under their lips, for who reproveth them?

Psalm 73:11

"Tush," say they, "How should God perceive it? Is there knowledge in the most high?"

Isaiah 29:15

Woe be unto them that seek so deep, to hide their imagination before the LORD, which rehearse their counsels in the darkness, and say, "Who seeth us, or who knoweth us?"

Ezekiel 9:9

Then said he unto me, "The wickedness of the house of Israel and Judah is very great: so that the land is full of blood, and the city full of unfaithfulness. For they say, 'Tush, the LORD regardeth not the earth, he seeth us not.'

Psalm 64:5

They have devised mischief, and communed among themselves how they may lay snares. "Tush," say they, "Who shall see them?"

Psalm 94:7-9

And yet they say, "Tush, the LORD seeth not, the God of Jacob regardeth it not."

Zephaniah 1:12

At the same time will I seek through Jerusalem with lanterns, and visit them that continue in their dregs, and say in their hearts, "Tush, the LORD will do neither good nor evil."

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