Or darkness -- thou dost not see, And abundance of waters doth cover thee.Job 22:11 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleOr 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.
Houbigant corrects the text thus: instead of או חשך לא תראה o chosech lo tireh, or darkness thou canst not see, he reads חשך לא אור תראה chosech lo or tireh, darkness, not light, shalt thou behold; that is, Thou shalt dwell in thick darkness. Mr. Good translates: "Or darkness which thou canst not penetrate, and a flood of waters shall cover thee." Thou shalt either be enveloped in deep darkness, or overwhelmed with a flood.
The versions all translate differently; and neither they nor the MSS. give any light, except what is afforded by the Septuagint. Coverdale is singular: Shuldest thou then send darcknesse? Shulde not the water floude runne over the? Perhaps the meaning is: "Thou art so encompassed with darkness, that thou canst not see thy way; and therefore fallest into the snares and traps that are laid for thee."
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darkness
Job 18:6,18 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him...
Job 19:8 He has fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness in my paths.
Proverbs 4:19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
Isaiah 8:22 And they shall look to the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
Lamentations 3:2 He has led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
Joel 2:2,3 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread on the mountains...
Matthew 8:12 But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
abundance
Psalm 42:7 Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterspouts: all your waves and your billows are gone over me.
Psalm 69:1,2 Save me, O God; for the waters are come in to my soul...
Psalm 124:4 Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:
Lamentations 3:54 Waters flowed over my head; then I said, I am cut off.
Jonah 2:3 For you had cast me into the deep, in the middle of the seas; and the floods compassed me about...
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