Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

Where the way light shall dwell? and darkness, where 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;

Darby Translation

Where is the way to where light dwelleth? and the darkness, where is 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 Wilt thou consider even to the breadth of the earth? Announce if thou knewest all of it 19 Where the way light shall dwell? and darkness, where its place? 20 That thou shalt take it to its bound, and that thou shalt understand the beaten paths of its house?

Cross References

Genesis 1:3-4

And God will say there shall be light, and there shall be light

Genesis 1:14-18

And God will say there shall be lights in the firmament of the heavens to separate between the day and between the night: and they shall be for signs and for set times, and for days and for years.

Deuteronomy 4:19

And lest thou shalt lift up thine eyes to the heavens, and seeing the sun and the moon and the stars, all the army of the heavens, and thou wert driven and didst worship to them, and didst serve them, which Jehovah thy God divided them out to all the peoples under all the heavens.

Job 38:12-13

In thy days didst thou command the morning? and didst thou make the dawning know its place?

Psalm 18:11

He will set darkness his covering; his tent round about him darknesses of waters, thick clouds.

Psalm 104:20

Thou didst set darkness and it will be night: in it all the beasts of the forest shall creep.

Psalm 105:28

He sent darkness, and he will darken; and they embittered not his words.

Isaiah 45:7

I shall form light and create darkness: making peace and creating evil: I Jehovah doing all these.

Jeremiah 13:16

Ye shall give glory to Jehovah your God, before he shall darken, and before your feet shall strike upon the mountains of darkness, and ye waited for light, and he set it for the shadow of death, he will place for gloom.

Ezekiel 32:8

All the luminaries of light in the heavens I will darken them over thee, and I gave darkness upon thy land, says the Lord Jehovah.

Amos 4:13

For behold, he forming the mountains and creating the wind, and announcing to man his meditation, making the morning darkness and treading upon the heights of the earth, Jehovah, God of armies his name

Matthew 27:45

And from the sixth hour, darkness was upon all the earth, even to the ninth hour.

John 1:9

The Light was true, which enlightens every man coming into the world.

John 8:12

Again therefore Jesus spake to them, saying, I am the light of the world: he following me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

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