or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.
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or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.
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Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.
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Or darkness, that thou canst not see, and abundance of waters cover thee.
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Passages linked to Job 22:11 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Psalms 69:1-2 Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck! I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
- Lamentations 3:54 Waters flowed over my head. I said, “I am cut off.”
- Jonah 2:3 For you threw me into the depths, in the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me.
- Job 19:8 He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths.
- Psalms 124:4-5 then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul; then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.
- Job 5:14 They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.
- Job 18:6 The light will be dark in his tent. His lamp above him will be put out.
- Job 18:18 He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
- Job 38:34 “Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover you?
- Psalms 42:7 Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.
- Proverbs 4:19 The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.
- Isaiah 8:22 and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.
- Lamentations 3:2 He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
- Joel 2:2-3 A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, a great and strong people; there has never been the like, neither will there be any more after them, even to the years of many generations. A fire devours before them, and behind them, a flame burns. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them, a desolate wilderness. Yes, and no one has escaped them.
- Matthew 8:12 but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain That is, manifold afflictions.
That is, manifold afflictions.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Job 22:11 Or darkness, [that] thou canst not see;…
Job 22:11 Or darkness, [that] thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.
Ver. 11. Or darkness, that thou canst not see] Sunt tenebrae supplicia, et damnatorum desperationes, saith Brentius here. By darkness are meant punishments, temporal and eternal. Others understand the text of blindness and confusion of mind, that can neither see the cause of trouble nor find an issue.
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And abundance of waters cover thee] So that although thou shouldest escape, the snares, outlive the fears, run away in the dark, yet how wilt thou avoid the deluge of destruction, the overflowing scourge that carrieth all before it?
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Darkness; either,
Darkness; either,
1. A darkness and confusion of mind so great that thou canst not discern the true cause and use of all thy sufferings. Or,
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2. Grievous calamities, which are oft called darkness, which are such that thou canst see no way nor possibility of escaping. Either thou art troubled with fear of further evils, as it is said, Job 21:10, or with the gross darkness of thy present state of misery.
Abundance of waters, i.e. plenty and variety of sore afflictions, which are frequently compared to waters, as Psa 18:16; 66:12; Isa 43:2.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Is not God in the height of heaven?.... The…
Is not God in the height of heaven?.... The heaven is high, it has its name from its height, and is noted for it; some of the heavens are higher than others, as the heaven of heavens, the third heaven, the habitation of angels and glorified saints; and here God dwells, this is the habitation of his holiness, and the high and holy place he inhabits; his throne is in heaven, in the heaven of heavens is his throne, where he in an especial manner manifests his glory, and the lustre of it; he is not indeed continued here, the heaven of heavens cannot contain him, he is everywhere; yet this is his court and palace, where his residence and retinue is and angels behold his face, and wait upon him; and because this is the principal seat of his majesty, it becomes one of his names, Dan 4:26; and the words here will bear to be rendered, "is not God the height of the heavens?" (t) or, as the Vulgate Latin version, "higher than the heavens"; he is above them, more exalted than they, being the Creator of them, see Heb 7:26;
and behold the height of the stars, how high they are; or "the head" or "top of the stars" (u), which Ben Gersom interprets of the supreme orb, or that high and vast space in which the fixed stars are, or the highest of them, which are at the greatest distance; according to Mr. Huygens (w) a cannon ball discharged would be twenty five years in passing from the earth to the sun, from, Jupiter to the sun an hundred twenty five years, from Saturn two hundred fifty, and from the sun to the dog star (v) 691,600 years; and if therefore it would be so long going to the nearest of the fixed stars, how great must be the distance of them from our earth, which are so much higher than the dog star as that is from the sun? But, though these are so exceeding high, yet God is higher than they, see Isa 14:13; the truth contained in these words was what both Eliphaz and Job were agreed in, let them be spoken by which they will, some ascribing them to the One, and some to the other; from whence Eliphaz represents Job drawing an inference very impious, blasphemous, and atheistical.
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(t) "sublimitas coelorum", Bolducius; "altitudo coeli", Michaelis; "altitudo coelorum", Schultens. (u) "capat stellarum", Montanus, Bolaucius, Mercerus, Cocceius; "verticem stellarum", V. L. Tigurine version, Michaelis, Schultens. (w) Cosmotheoros, l. 2. p. 125, 137. (v) (The Dog Star is the brighest star in the heavens when viewed from the earth. It has a visual magnitude of -1.4 and is 8.7 light years from the earth. It is in the constellation Sirius. The closest star to the earth is Centaurus and has a visual magnitude of 0 and is 4.3 light years from the earth. It is several times fainter the the Dog Star but is still quite bright compared to neighbouring stars. 1969 Oberserver's Handbook, p. 74, 75. The Royal Astonomical Society of Canada, Toronto, Ontario. Editor)
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Or - Either thou art troubled with fear of…
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.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 11. Or darkness, that thou canst not see]…
Verse 11. 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.
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.
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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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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Or darkness - Darkness and night in the Scriptures…
Or darkness - Darkness and night in the Scriptures are emblems of calamity.
That thou canst not see - Deep and fearful darkness; total night, so that nothing is visible. That is, the heaviest calamities had overwhelmed him.
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And abundance of waters - An emblem, also, of calamities; Job 27:20; Psa 69:1-2; Psa 73:10.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Waters, and misery, (Calmet) which such conduct deserved. (Haydock)
Waters, and misery, (Calmet) which such conduct deserved. (Haydock)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain that--so that thou.
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; Job 27:20).
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 11. Darkness, etc. — Dillmann and Schlottmann make this…
11. Darkness, etc. — Dillmann and Schlottmann make this a question, but the text is better — (thus Hitzig.) The darkness is moral, blurring the vision. Eliphaz represents Job’s sins as encompassing him like thick, dark clouds, and overwhelming him as a flood.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Or darkness, that thou canst not see. Job had…
Or darkness, that thou canst not see. Job had complained of the "darkness" that was "set in his paths", (Job_19:8) meaning probably his inability to discover the cause of his afflictions. And abundance of waters cover thee. The comparison of severe affliction to an overwhelming flood is very common in Scripture. (see Psa_42:7 Psa_69:1-3, Psa_69:14, 15 124:4, 5 Lam_3:54, etc.) So Shakespeare speaks of "a sea of troubles."
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