Job 22:11
or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.
In Context
10Therefore snares are around you. Sudden fear troubles you,
12“Isn’t God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are!
Cross References
Job 5:14They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.
Job 18:6The light will be dark in his tent. His lamp above him will be put out.
Job 19:8He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths.
Psalms 42:7Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.
Psalms 69:2I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
Proverbs 4:19The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.
Matthew Henry on Job 22:6-15
Job Accused of Various Crimes. ( b. c. 1520.) 5 Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite? 6 For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing. 7 Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry. 8 But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it. 9 Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken. 10 Therefore snares are round about thee,… Read the whole commentary →