Job 22:11
Or darkenes that thou shouldest not see, and abundance of waters shall couer thee.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.
In Context
10Therefore snares are round about thee, and feare shall suddenly trouble thee:
12Is not God on hie in the heauen? and behold the height of the starres how hie they are.
Cross References
Job 5:14They meete with darkenesse in the day time, and grope at noone day, as in the night.
Job 18:6The light shalbe darke in his dwelling, and his candle shalbe put out with him.
Job 19:8Hee hath hedged vp my way that I cannot passe, and he hath set darkenesse in my paths.
Psalms 42:7One deepe calleth another deepe by the noyse of thy water spoutes: all thy waues and thy floods are gone ouer me.
Psalms 69:2I sticke fast in the deepe myre, where no staie is: I am come into deepe waters, and the streames runne ouer me.
Proverbs 4:19The way of the wicked is as the darkenes: they knowe not wherein they shall fall.
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 →