Job 22:14

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Thick clouds are a veil for him, so he does not see us, as he goes back and forth in the vault of heaven.’

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 139:11-12 : 11 If I were to say,“Certainly the darkness will cover me, and the light will turn to night all around me,” 12 even the darkness is not too dark for you to see, and the night is as bright as day; darkness and light are the same to you.
  • Jer 23:24 : 24 “Do you really think anyone can hide himself where I cannot see him?” the LORD asks.“Do you not know that I am everywhere?” the LORD asks.
  • Luke 12:2-3 : 2 Nothing is hidden that will not be revealed, and nothing is secret that will not be made known. 3 So then whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in private rooms will be proclaimed from the housetops.
  • Job 26:9 : 9 He conceals the face of the full moon, shrouding it with his clouds.
  • Job 34:22 : 22 There is no darkness, and no deep darkness, where evildoers can hide themselves.
  • Ps 33:14 : 14 From the place where he lives he looks carefully at all the earth’s inhabitants.
  • Ps 97:2 : 2 Dark clouds surround him; equity and justice are the foundation of his throne.
  • Ps 139:1-2 : 1 For the music director, a psalm of David. O LORD, you examine me and know. 2 You know when I sit down and when I get up; even from far away you understand my motives.

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    11why it is so dark you cannot see, and why a flood of water covers you.

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  • Job 36:32
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    32With his hands he covers the lightning, and directs it against its target.

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    10He made the sky sink as he descended; a thick cloud was under his feet.

    11He mounted a winged angel and flew; he glided on the wings of the wind.

    12He shrouded himself in darkness, in thick rain clouds.

  • Ps 18:11-12
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    11He shrouded himself in darkness, in thick rain clouds.

    12From the brightness in front of him came hail and fiery coals.

  • Job 26:8-9
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    8He locks the waters in his clouds, and the clouds do not burst with the weight of them.

    9He conceals the face of the full moon, shrouding it with his clouds.

  • Job 37:21-22
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    21But now, the sun cannot be looked at– it is bright in the skies– after a wind passed and swept the clouds away.

    22From the north he comes in golden splendor; around God is awesome majesty.

  • Job 36:29-30
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    29Who can understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?

    30See how he scattered his lightning about him; he has covered the depths of the sea.

  • Job 37:11-12
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    11He loads the clouds with moisture; he scatters his lightning through the clouds.

    12The clouds go round in circles, wheeling about according to his plans, to carry out all that he commands them over the face of the whole inhabited world.

  • Job 37:15-16
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    15Do you know how God commands them, how he makes lightning flash in his storm cloud?

    16Do you know about the balancing of the clouds, that wondrous activity of him who is perfect in knowledge?

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    2He covers himself with light as if it were a garment. He stretches out the skies like a tent curtain,

    3and lays the beams of the upper rooms of his palace on the rain clouds. He makes the clouds his chariot, and travels along on the wings of the wind.

  • Job 38:33-34
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    33Do you know the laws of the heavens, or can you set up their rule over the earth?

    34Can you raise your voice to the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?

  • Ps 97:2
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    2Dark clouds surround him; equity and justice are the foundation of his throne.

  • Job 35:5
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    5Gaze at the heavens and see; consider the clouds, which are higher than you!

  • Job 9:11
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    11If he passes by me, I cannot see him, if he goes by, I cannot perceive him.

  • Job 20:6
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    6Even though his stature reaches to the heavens and his head touches the clouds,

  • Ps 18:9
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    9He made the sky sink as he descended; a thick cloud was under his feet.

  • Job 26:14
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    14Indeed, these are but the outer fringes of his ways! How faint is the whisper we hear of him! But who can understand the thunder of his power?”

  • Ps 19:6
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    6It emerges from the distant horizon, and goes from one end of the sky to the other; nothing can escape its heat.

  • Job 37:18
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    18will you, with him, spread out the clouds, solid as a mirror of molten metal?

  • Job 22:15
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    15Will you keep to the old path that evil men have walked–

  • Job 38:9
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    9when I made the storm clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band,

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    21For his eyes are on the ways of an individual, he observes all a person’s steps.

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    8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness over my paths.

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    32It leaves a glistening wake behind it; one would think the deep had a head of white hair.

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    24For he looks to the ends of the earth and observes everything under the heavens.

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    19“In what direction does light reside, and darkness, where is its place,

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    37Who by wisdom can count the clouds, and who can tip over the water jars of heaven,

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    27He draws up drops of water; they distill the rain into its mist,

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    44You shrouded yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can get through.

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    3Under the whole heaven he lets it go, even his lightning to the far corners of the earth.

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    15If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes,

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    7he who commands the sun and it does not shine and seals up the stars;

    8he alone spreads out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea;

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    14How much less, then, when you say that you do not perceive him, that the case is before him and you are waiting for him!

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    3Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?

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    26when he imposed a limit for the rain, and a path for the thunderstorm,

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    3Can his armies be numbered? On whom does his light not rise?

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    4He who watches the wind will not sow, and he who observes the clouds will not reap.