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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 22:11-13
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    87%

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

    12 “Is not God on high in heaven? And see the lofty stars, how high they are!

    13 But you have said,‘What does God know? Does he judge through such deep darkness?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Job 37:21-22
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    78%

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

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

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

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

  • Job 37:11-12
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    77%

    11 He loads the clouds with moisture; he scatters his lightning through the clouds.

    12 The 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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    15 Do you know how God commands them, how he makes lightning flash in his storm cloud?

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

  • Ps 104:2-3
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    2 He covers himself with light as if it were a garment. He stretches out the skies like a tent curtain,

    3 and 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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    33 Do you know the laws of the heavens, or can you set up their rule over the earth?

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 14 Indeed, 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?”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Job 9:7-8
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    7 he who commands the sun and it does not shine and seals up the stars;

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

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

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

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

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

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