Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

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

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?

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;

Darby Translation

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

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 Have thou comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if thou know it all. 19 Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And as for darkness, where is the place of it 20 that thou should take it to the bound of it, and that thou should discern the paths to the house of it?


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 firmament of heaven to divide the day from 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 heaven, and when thou see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the host of heaven, thou be drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which LORD thy God has allotted to all the peoples

Job 38:12-13

Have thou commanded the morning since thy days [began], [and] caused the dayspring to know its place

Psalm 18:11

He made darkness his hiding-place, his pavilion round about him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

Psalm 104:20

Thou make darkness, and it is night, during which all the beasts of the forest creep forth.

Psalm 105:28

He sent darkness, and made it dark. And they rebelled against his words.

Isaiah 45:7

I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create evil. I am LORD who does all these things.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains. And, while ye look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.

Ezekiel 32:8

All the bright lights of heaven I will make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, says lord LORD.

Amos 4:13

For, lo, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought, who makes the morning darkness, and treads upon the high places of the earth--LORD, the God of hosts, is his name.

Matthew 27:45

Now from the sixth hour darkness developed over all the land until the ninth hour.

John 1:9

He was the TRUE light coming into the world that enlightens every man.

John 8:12

Again therefore Jesus spoke to them, saying, I am the light of the world. He who follows me would, no, not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.

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