Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

Where is the way to where light dwelleth? and the darkness, where is its place,

New American Standard Bible

“Where is the way to the dwelling of light?
And darkness, where is its place,

King James Version

Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,

Holman Bible

Where is the road to the home of light?
Do you know where darkness lives,

International Standard Version

"Where is the road to where the light lives? Or where does the darkness live?

A Conservative Version

Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And as for darkness, where is the place of it

American Standard Version

Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And as for darkness, where is the place thereof,

Amplified


“Where is the way where light dwells?
And as for darkness, where is its place,

Bible in Basic English

Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark;

Julia Smith Translation

Where the way light shall dwell? and darkness, where its place?

King James 2000

Where is the way where light dwells? and as for darkness, where is its place,

Lexham Expanded Bible

"Where then [is] the way [where] [the] light dwells? And where then [is] its place,

Modern King James verseion

Where is the way where light dwells? And where is the place of darkness,

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

then show me where light dwelleth, and where darkness is:

NET Bible

"In what direction does light reside, and darkness, where is its place,

New Heart English Bible

"What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,

The Emphasized Bible

Where then is the way, the light shall abide? And, the darkness, where then is its place?

Webster

Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is its place,

World English Bible

"What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,

Youngs Literal Translation

Where is this -- the way light dwelleth? And darkness, where is this -- its place?

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Where is the way
דּרך 
Derek 
Usage: 704

אור 
'owr 
Usage: 122

שׁכן 
Shakan 
Usage: 128

and as for darkness
חשׁך 
Choshek 
Usage: 78

where is the place
מקמה מקומה מקם מקום 
Maqowm 
Usage: 401

References

Fausets

Context Readings

Yahweh Interrogates Job

18 Hath thine understanding compassed the breadths of the earth? Declare if thou knowest it all. 19 Where is the way to where light dwelleth? and the darkness, where is its place, 20 That thou shouldest take it to its bound, and that thou shouldest know the paths to its house?

Cross References

Genesis 1:3-4

And God said, Let there be light. And there was light.

Genesis 1:14-18

And God said, Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens, to divide between the day and the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;

Deuteronomy 4:19

and lest thou lift up thine eyes to the heavens, and see the sun, and the moon, and the stars, the whole host of heaven, and be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, which Jehovah thy God hath assigned unto all peoples under the whole heaven.

Job 38:12-13

Hast thou since thy days commanded the morning? hast thou caused the dawn to know its place,

Psalm 18:11

He made darkness his secret place, his tent round about him: darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

Psalm 104:20

Thou makest darkness, and it is night, wherein all the beasts of the forest creep forth:

Psalm 105:28

He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.

Isaiah 45:7

forming the light and creating darkness, making peace and creating evil: I, Jehovah, do all these things.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to Jehovah your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the mountains of twilight; and ye shall look for light, but he will turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.

Ezekiel 32:8

All the bright lights of the heavens will I make black over thee, and bring darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord Jehovah.

Amos 4:13

For behold, he who formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, who maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, Jehovah, the God of hosts, is his name.

Matthew 27:45

Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour;

John 1:9

The true light was that which, coming into the world, lightens every man.

John 8:12

Again therefore Jesus spoke to them, saying, I am the light of the world; he that follows me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

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