Job 22:13
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Yet you say: ‘What does God know? Does He judge through thick darkness?”
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BSBPD
“Yet you say: ‘What does God know? Does He judge through thick darkness?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“And thou sayest, What doth God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“And thou hast said, `What--hath God known? Through thickness doth He judge?”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Job 22:13 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 34:22There is no darkness or deep shadow where the workers of iniquity can hide.
- Psalms 10:11He says to himself, “God has forgotten; He hides His face and never sees.”
- Psalms 59:7See what they spew from their mouths— sharp words from their lips: “For who can hear us?”
- Psalms 64:5They hold fast to their evil purpose; they speak of hiding their snares. “Who will see them?” they say.
- Psalms 73:11The wicked say, “How can God know? Does the Most High have knowledge?”
- Psalms 94:7They say, “The LORD does not see; the God of Jacob pays no heed.”
- Psalms 139:7Where can I go to escape Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence?
- Isaiah 29:15Woe to those who dig deep to hide their plans from the LORD. In darkness they do their works and say, “Who sees us, and who will know?”
- Jeremiah 23:24“Can a man hide in secret places where I cannot see him?” declares the LORD. “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares the LORD.
- Ezekiel 8:12“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? For they are saying, ‘The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the land.’”
- Ezekiel 9:9He replied, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. The land is full of bloodshed, and the city is full of perversity. For they say, ‘The LORD has forsaken the land; the LORD does not see.’
- Amos 9:2Though they dig down to Sheol, from there My hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, from there I will pull them down.
- Amos 9:3Though they hide themselves atop Carmel, there I will track them and seize them; and though they hide from Me at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent to bite them.
- Zephaniah 1:12And at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish the men settled in complacency, who say to themselves, ‘The LORD will do nothing, either good or bad.’
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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