Job 22:11
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“it is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.”
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BSBPD
“it is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Or darkness, so that thou canst not see, And abundance of waters cover thee.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Or darkness--thou dost not see, And abundance of waters doth cover thee.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Job 22:11 — 17 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 5:14They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.
- Job 11:16For you will forget your misery, recalling it only as waters gone by.
- Job 18:6The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.
- Job 18:18He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.
- Job 19:8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.
- Job 38:34Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?
- Psalms 42:7Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and waves have rolled over me.
- Psalms 69:1Save me, O God, for the waters are up to my neck.
- Psalms 69:2I have sunk into the miry depths, where there is no footing; I have drifted into deep waters, where the flood engulfs me.
- Psalms 124:4then the floods would have engulfed us, then the torrent would have overwhelmed us,
- Proverbs 4:19But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.
- Isaiah 8:22Then they will look to the earth and see only distress and darkness and the gloom of anguish. And they will be driven into utter darkness.
- Lamentations 3:2He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light.
- Lamentations 3:54The waters flowed over my head, and I thought I was going to die.
- Joel 2:2a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like the dawn overspreading the mountains a great and strong army appears, such as never was of old, nor will ever be in ages to come.
- Jonah 2:3For 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.
- Matthew 8:12But the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
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