Job 23:17
For I am overcome by the dark, and by the black night which is covering my face.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.
In Context
16For God has made my heart feeble, and my mind is troubled before the Ruler of all.
Cross References
2 Kings 22:20For this cause I will let you go to your fathers and be put in your last resting-place in peace, and your eyes will not see all the evil which I will send on this place. So they took this news back to the king.
Job 15:22He has no hope of coming safe out of the dark, and his fate will be the sword;
Job 18:18He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.
Job 22:11Your light is made dark so that you are unable to see, and you are covered by a mass of waters.
Matthew Henry on Job 23:14-17
Job's Comfort in His Integrity. ( b. c. 1520.) 13 But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth. 14 For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him. 15 Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him. 16 For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me: 17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face. Some make Job to complain here that… Read the whole commentary →