Job 22:13 Yet you say, 'What does God know? Does he judge through such darkness?

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Yet you say, 'What does God know? Does he judge through such darkness?

English Standard Version
But you say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the deep darkness?

New American Standard Bible
"You say, 'What does God know? Can He judge through the thick darkness?

King James Bible
And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Yet you say: "What does God know? Can He judge through thick darkness?

International Standard Version
You've asked, 'What does God know? Can he sort through pitch black darkness?'

American Standard Version
And thou sayest, What doth God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou sayst: What doth God know? and he judgeth as it were through a mist.

Darby Bible Translation
And thou sayest, What doth God know? will he judge through the dark cloud?

Young's Literal Translation
And thou hast said, 'What -- hath God known? Through thickness doth He judge?

Cross References

Psalm 10:11
He has said in his heart, God has forgotten: he hides his face; he will never see it.

Psalm 59:7
Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, does hear?

Psalm 64:5
They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privately; they say, Who shall see them?

Psalm 73:11
And they say, How does God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?

Psalm 94:7
Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.

Psalm 139:11
If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.

Isaiah 29:15
Woe to them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who sees us? and who knows us?

Jeremiah 23:24
Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? said the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? said the LORD.

Ezekiel 8:12
Then said he to me, Son of man, have you seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, the LORD sees us not; the LORD has forsaken the earth.

Ezekiel 9:9
Then said he to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD has forsaken the earth, and the LORD sees not.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

22:5-14 Eliphaz brought heavy charges against Job, without reason for his accusations, except that Job was visited as he supposed God always visited every wicked man. He charges him with oppression, and that he did harm with his wealth and power in the time of his prosperity.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

13. Rather, And yet thou sayest, God does not concern Himself with ("know") human affairs (Ps 73:11).

Job 22:12

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