Job 22:11
◄  Job 22:11  ►
New International Version (©2011)
why it is so dark you cannot see, and why a flood of water covers you.

New Living Translation (©2007)
That is why you cannot see in the darkness, and waves of water cover you.

English Standard Version (©2001)
or darkness, so that you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Or darkness, so that you cannot see, And an abundance of water covers you.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
or darkness, so you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.

International Standard Version (©2012)
you see nothing but darkness, and a flood of troubles drowns you."

NET Bible (©2006)
why it is so dark you cannot see, and why a flood of water covers you.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
[That is why] darkness surrounds you and you cannot see and a flood of water covers you.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Or darkness, that you can not see; and abundance of waters cover you.

American King James Version
Or darkness, that you can not see; and abundance of waters cover you.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
And didst thou think that thou shouldst not see darkness, and that thou shouldst not be covered with the violence of overflowing waters?

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

English Revised Version
Or darkness, that thou canst not see, and abundance of waters cover thee.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

Young's Literal Translation
Or darkness -- thou dost not see, And abundance of waters doth cover thee.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Or darkness, that thou canst not see,.... Or darkness is round about thee, thou art enveloped in it; meaning either judicial blindness, and darkness, and stupidity of mind, which must be his case, if he could not see the hand of God upon him, or the snares that were about him, or was not troubled with sudden fear; or else the darkness of affliction and calamity, which is often signified hereby, see Isaiah 8:22; afflictive dispensations of Providence are sometimes so dark, that a man cannot see the cause and reason of them, or why it is he is brought into them; which was Job's case, and therefore desires God would show him wherefore he contended with him, Job 10:9; nor can he see, perceive, or enjoy any light of comfort; he is in inward darkness of soul, deprived of the light of God's countenance, as well as he is in the outward darkness of adversity, which is a most uncomfortable case, as it was this good man's; nor can he see any end of the affliction, or any way to escape out of it, and which were the present circumstances Job was in:

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Or darkness - Darkness and night in the Scriptures are emblems of calamity.

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Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

Or darkness, that thou canst not see - The sense of this passage, in the connection that the particle or gives it with the preceding verse, is not easy to be ascertained. To me it seems very probable that a letter has been lost from the first word; and that או o which we translate Or, was originally אור or Light. The copy used by the Septuagint had certainly this reading; and therefore they translate the verse thus: Το φως σοι εις σκοτος απεβη; Thy Light is changed into darkness; that is, Thy prosperity is turned into adversity.

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Geneva Study Bible

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

(f) That is, manifold afflictions.

Wesley's Notes

22:11 Or - Either thou art troubled with fear of further evils or with the gross darkness of thy present state of misery. Waters - Variety of sore afflictions, which are frequently compared to water.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

11. that-so that thou.

abundance-floods. Danger by floods is a less frequent image in this book than in the rest of the Old Testament (Job 11:16; 27:20).

Job 22:11 Parallel Commentaries
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Eliphaz Accuses and Exhorts Job
…10Therefore snares are round about you, and sudden fear troubles you; 11Or darkness, that you can not see; and abundance of waters cover you. 12Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are! …

Job 5:14 Darkness comes upon them in the daytime; at noon they grope as in the night.
Job 11:16 You will surely forget your trouble, recalling it only as waters gone by.
Job 24:18 "Yet they are foam on the surface of the water; their portion of the land is cursed, so that no one goes to the vineyards.
Job 38:34 "Can you raise your voice to the clouds and cover yourself with a flood of water?
Psalm 69:1 For the director of music. To the tune of "Lilies." Of David. Save me, O God, for the waters have come up to my neck.
Psalm 69:2 I sink in the miry depths, where there is no foothold. I have come into the deep waters; the floods engulf me.
Psalm 124:4 the flood would have engulfed us, the torrent would have swept over us,
Psalm 124:5 the raging waters would have swept us away.
Lamentations 3:54 the waters closed over my head, and I thought I was about to perish.