Job 22:11

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Your light is made dark so that you are unable to see, and you are covered by a mass of waters.

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  • Ps 69:1-2 : 1 <To the chief music-maker; put to Shoshannim. Of David.> Be my saviour, O God; because the waters have come in, even to my neck. 2 My feet are deep in the soft earth, where there is no support; I have come into deep waters, the waves are flowing over me.
  • Lam 3:54 : 54 Waters were flowing over my head; I said, I am cut off.
  • Jonah 2:3 : 3 In my trouble I was crying to the Lord, and he gave me an answer; out of the deepest underworld I sent up a cry, and you gave ear to my voice.
  • Ps 124:4-5 : 4 We would have been covered by the waters; the streams would have gone over our soul; 5 Yes, the waters of pride would have gone over our soul.
  • Job 19:8 : 8 My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.
  • Job 38:34 : 34 Is your voice sent up to the cloud, so that you may be covered by the weight of waters?
  • Ps 42:7 : 7 Deep is sounding to deep at the noise of your waterfalls; all your waves have gone rolling over me.
  • Job 5:14 : 14 In the daytime it becomes dark for them, and in the sunlight they go feeling about as if it was night.
  • Job 18:6 : 6 The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out.
  • Job 18:18 : 18 He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.
  • Prov 4:19 : 19 The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.
  • Isa 8:22 : 22 And he will be looking down on the earth, and there will be trouble and dark clouds, black night where there is no seeing.
  • Lam 3:2 : 2 By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light.
  • Matt 8:12 : 12 But the sons of the kingdom will be put out into the dark, and there will be weeping and cries of pain.
  • Joel 2:2-3 : 2 For a day of dark and deep shade is near, a day of cloud and black night: like a black cloud a great and strong people is covering the mountains; there has never been any like them and will not be after them again, from generation to generation. 3 Before them fire sends destruction, and after them flame is burning: the land is like the garden of Eden before them, and after them an unpeopled waste; truly, nothing has been kept safe from them.

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  • 10 For this cause nets are round your feet, and you are overcome with sudden fear.

  • 34 Is your voice sent up to the cloud, so that you may be covered by the weight of waters?

  • Job 22:12-14
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    12 Is not God as high as heaven? and see the stars, how high they are!

    13 And you say, What knowledge has God? is he able to give decisions through the deep dark?

    14 Thick clouds are covering him, so that he is unable to see; and he is walking on the arch of heaven.

  • 22 A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.

  • 12 And he made the dark his tent round him, a mass of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

  • 11 He made the dark his secret place; his tent round him was the dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

  • Ps 139:11-12
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    11 If I say, Only let me be covered by the dark, and the light about me be night;

    12 Even the dark is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day: for dark and light are the same to you.

  • Job 3:4-6
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    4 That day--let it be dark; let not God take note of it from on high, and let not the light be shining on it;

    5 Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it.

    6 That night--let the thick dark take it; let it not have joy among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.

  • 30 See, he is stretching out his mist, covering the tops of the mountains with it.

  • 19 Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark;

  • 20 Fears overtake him like rushing waters; in the night the storm-wind takes him away.

  • Job 38:16-17
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    76%

    16 Have you come into the springs of the sea, walking in the secret places of the deep?

    17 Have the doors of death been open to you, or have the door-keepers of the dark ever seen you?

  • Job 11:8-9
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    75%

    8 They are higher than heaven; what is there for you to do? deeper than the underworld, and outside your knowledge;

    9 Longer in measure than the earth, and wider than the sea.

  • 22 Uncovering deep things out of the dark, and making the deep shade bright;

  • 11 He keeps back the streams from flowing, and makes the secret things come out into the light.

  • 17 For I am overcome by the dark, and by the black night which is covering my face.

  • 6 Covering it with the sea as with a robe: the waters were high over the mountains;

  • 11 Because of this evil will come on you, which may not be turned away for any price: and trouble will overtake you, from which no money will give salvation: destruction will come on you suddenly, without your knowledge.

  • 32 He takes the light in his hands, sending it against the mark.

  • Job 11:16-17
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    74%

    16 For your sorrow will go from your memory, like waters flowing away:

    17 And your life will be brighter than day; though it is dark, it will become like the morning.

  • 22 There is no dark place, and no thick cloud, in which the workers of evil may take cover.

  • 8 But like water overflowing he will take them away; he will put an end to those who come up against him, driving his haters into the dark.

  • 22 And he will be looking down on the earth, and there will be trouble and dark clouds, black night where there is no seeing.

  • 16 Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.

  • 10 By him a circle is marked out on the face of the waters, to the limits of the light and the dark.

  • 8 My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.

  • 19 Make clear to me what we are to say to him; we are unable to put our cause before him, because of the dark.

  • 5 And I said, I have been sent away from before your eyes; how may I ever again see your holy Temple?

  • 17 See, O strong man, the Lord will send you violently away, gripping you with force,

  • 14 He has made men like the fishes of the sea, like the worms which have no ruler over them.

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    7 And when I put out your life, the heaven will be covered and its stars made dark; I will let the sun be covered with a cloud and the moon will not give her light.

    8 All the bright lights of heaven I will make dark over you, and put dark night on your land, says the Lord.

  • 17 These are fountains without water, and mists before a driving storm; for whom the eternal night is kept in store.

  • 16 The waters saw you, O God; the waters saw you, they were in fear: even the deep was troubled.

  • Job 28:3-4
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    3 Man puts an end to the dark, searching out to the farthest limit the stones of the deep places of the dark.

    4 He makes a deep mine far away from those living in the light of day; when they go about on the earth, they have no knowledge of those who are under them, who are hanging far from men, twisting from side to side on a cord.

  • 30 The waters are joined together, hard as a stone, and the face of the deep is covered.

  • 7 Deep is sounding to deep at the noise of your waterfalls; all your waves have gone rolling over me.

  • 15 Truly, he keeps back the waters and they are dry; he sends them out and the earth is overturned.

  • 9 Let its morning stars be dark; let it be looking for light, but may it not have any; let it not see the eyes of the dawn.

  • 17 For the middle of the night is as morning to them, they are not troubled by the fear of the dark.

  • 10 The mountains saw you and were moved with fear; the clouds were streaming with water: the voice of the deep was sounding; the sun did not come up, and the moon kept still in her place.