Job 22:11
it is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.
BSB
ASV
Or darkness, so that thou canst not see, And abundance of waters cover thee.
KJV
Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.
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. 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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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Jonah 2:3For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current swirled about me; all Your breakers and waves swept over me.
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Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and waves have rolled over me.
The waters flowed over my head, and I thought I was going to die.
Save me, O God, for the waters are up to my neck.
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Job 19:8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.
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He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.
Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.
But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.
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Lamentations 3:54The waters flowed over my head, and I thought I was going to die.
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For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current swirled about me; all Your breakers and waves swept over me.