Psalm 139:12
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New International Version (©2011)
even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.

New Living Translation (©2007)
but even in darkness I cannot hide from you. To you the night shines as bright as day. Darkness and light are the same to you.

English Standard Version (©2001)
even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Even the darkness is not dark to You, And the night is as bright as the day. Darkness and light are alike to You.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
even the darkness is not dark to You. The night shines like the day; darkness and light are alike to You.

International Standard Version (©2012)
even darkness isn't dark to you, darkness and light are the same to you.

NET Bible (©2006)
even the darkness is not too dark for you to see, and the night is as bright as day; darkness and light are the same to you.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
And the darkness will not darken from you, and the night will shine like the day.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
even the darkness is not too dark for you. Night is as bright as day. Darkness and light are the same [to you].

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Yea, the darkness hides not from you; but the night shines as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to you.

American King James Version
Yes, the darkness hides not from you; but the night shines as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to you.

American Standard Version
Even the darkness hideth not from thee, But the night shineth as the day: The darkness and the light are both alike to thee .

Douay-Rheims Bible
But darkness shall not be dark to thee, and night shall be light as day: the darkness thereof, and the light thereof are alike to thee.

Darby Bible Translation
Even darkness hideth not from thee, and the night shineth as the day: the darkness is as the light.

English Revised Version
Even the darkness hideth not from thee, but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.

Webster's Bible Translation
Yes, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.

World English Bible
even the darkness doesn't hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.

Young's Literal Translation
Also darkness hideth not from Thee, And night as day shineth, as is darkness so is light.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

139:7-16 We cannot see God, but he can see us. The psalmist did not desire to go from the Lord. Whither can I go? In the most distant corners of the world, in heaven, or in hell, I cannot go out of thy reach. No veil can hide us from God; not the thickest darkness. No disguise can save any person or action from being seen in the true light by him. Secret haunts of sin are as open before God as the most open villanies. On the other hand, the believer cannot be removed from the supporting, comforting presence of his Almighty Friend. Should the persecutor take his life, his soul will the sooner ascend to heaven. The grave cannot separate his body from the love of his Saviour, who will raise it a glorious body. No outward circumstances can separate him from his Lord. While in the path of duty, he may be happy in any situation, by the exercise of faith, hope, and prayer.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee,.... Any thing that is done by men in it; or "darkeneth not from thee" (i), or causeth such darkness as to hinder the sight of any action committed. The Targum is,

"from thy Word;''

see Hebrews 4:12;

but the night shineth as the day; or "enlightens as the day" (k), gives as much light with respect to God as the day does;

the darkness and the light are both alike to thee; as is the one, so is the other: the day gives him no more light than the night, and the night no more darkness than the day; he sees as well, as clearly and distinctly, in the one as in the other. The psalmist expresses the same thing in different words three or four times, as Kimchi observes, to show that so the Lord is, that thus it is with him; he has as clear a discerning of all things done in the darkest night as at bright noon day; see Job 34:21.

(i) "non obscurabit a te", Montanus; "non obtenebrant", Gejerus; so Michaelis. (k) "illustrat", Junius & Tremellius; "illuminabit", Gejerus Michaelis; so Ainsworth.

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You have Searched Me and Know Me
…11If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me. 12Yes, the darkness hides not from you; but the night shines as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to you. 13For you have possessed my reins: you have covered me in my mother's womb. …

1 John 1:5 This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.
Job 34:22 There is no deep shadow, no utter darkness, where evildoers can hide.
Psalm 19:2 Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge.
Daniel 2:22 He reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what lies in darkness, and light dwells with him.