Job 22:11 “it is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.”

Job 22:11

it is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.

World English Bible

or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.

American Standard Version

Or darkness, so that thou canst not see, And abundance of waters cover thee.

Geneva Bible 1599

Or darkenes that thou shouldest not see, and abundance of waters shall couer thee.

Darby Translation

Or darkness, that thou canst not see, and floods of waters cover thee.

Young's Literal Translation

Or darkness — thou dost not see, And abundance of waters doth cover thee.

Bible in Basic English

Your light is made dark so that you are unable to see, and you are covered by a mass of waters.

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Cross references

“darkness”

Job 18:6 Job 18:18 Job 19:8 Lamentations 3:2 Matthew 8:12 Proverbs 4:19

Job 18:6 · BSB

The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.

Job 18:18 · BSB

He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.

Job 19:8 · BSB

He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.

Lamentations 3:2 · BSB

He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light.

Matthew 8:12 · BSB

But the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

Proverbs 4:19 · BSB

But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.

“abundance”

Lamentations 3:54 Jonah 2:3 Psalm 42:7 Psalm 69:1 Psalm 69:2 Psalm 124:4

Lamentations 3:54 · BSB

The waters flowed over my head, and I thought I was going to die.

Jonah 2:3 · BSB

For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current swirled about me; all Your breakers and waves swept over me.

Psalm 42:7 · BSB

Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and waves have rolled over me.

Psalm 69:1 · BSB

Save me, O God, for the waters are up to my neck.

Psalm 69:2 · BSB

I have sunk into the miry depths, where there is no footing; I have drifted into deep waters, where the flood engulfs me.

Psalm 124:4 · BSB

then the floods would have engulfed us, then the torrent would have overwhelmed us,

Also

Job 38:34 Job 5:14

Job 38:34 · BSB

Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?

Job 5:14 · BSB

They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

10Therefore snares surround you, and sudden peril terrifies you;

12Is not God as high as the heavens? Look at the highest stars, how lofty they are!

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