Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
If I say, "Peradventure the darkness shall cover me, then shall my night be turned to day." -
New American Standard Bible
And the light around me will be night,”
King James Version
If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
Holman Bible
and the light around me will be night”
International Standard Version
If I say, "Darkness will surely conceal me, and the light around me will become night,"
A Conservative Version
If I say, Surely the darkness shall overwhelm me, and the light around me shall be night,
American Standard Version
If I say, Surely the darkness shall overwhelm me, And the light about me shall be night;
Amplified
If I say, “Surely the darkness will cover me,
And the night will be the only light around me,”
Bible in Basic English
If I say, Only let me be covered by the dark, and the light about me be night;
Darby Translation
And if I say, Surely darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night;
Julia Smith Translation
And saying, surely the darkness shall fall upon me; and the night shone about me.
King James 2000
If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And if I should say, "Surely darkness will cover me, and [the] light around me [will be as] night,"
Modern King James verseion
If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me, even the night shall be light around me.
NET Bible
If I were to say, "Certainly the darkness will cover me, and the light will turn to night all around me,"
New Heart English Bible
If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; the light around me will be night;"
The Emphasized Bible
If I say, Surely, darkness, shall cover me! then, night, is light about me.
Webster
If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
World English Bible
If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; the light around me will be night;"
Youngs Literal Translation
And I say, 'Surely darkness bruiseth me, Then night is light to me.
Topics
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 139:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
The All-Knowing, Ever-Present God
10 even there also shall thy hand lead me, and thy righthand shall hold me. 11 If I say, "Peradventure the darkness shall cover me, then shall my night be turned to day." - 12 Yea, the darkness is no darkness with thee, but the night is as clear as the day; the darkness and light are both alike.
Cross References
Job 12:22
"Look: what lieth hid in darkness, he declareth it openly! And the very shadow of death bringeth he to light!
Job 22:12-14
Now because that God is higher than the heavens, and because thou seest the stars are so high,
Psalm 10:11-13
He hath said in his heart, "Tush, God hath forgotten, he hath turned away his face, so that he will never see it."
Psalm 94:7
And yet they say, "Tush, the LORD seeth not, the God of Jacob regardeth it not."
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?"
Jeremiah 23:24
May any man hide himself so, that I shall not see him, sayeth the LORD? Do not I fulfill heaven and earth, sayeth the LORD?