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Job 22:11

Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.

That - so that thou canst not see.

Abundance - floods. Dauger by floods is a less frequent image in this book than in the rest of the Old Testament (Job 11:16; Job 27:20). Overwhelming calamities are meant (Psalms 18:16; Psalms 32:6).

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See also Job 22:11 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 22:11. _OR DARKNESS_, THAT _THOU CANST NOT SEE_] The sense of this passage, in the connection that the particle _or_ gives it with the preceding verse, is not easy to be ascertained. To me...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    OR DARKNESS - Darkness and night in the Scriptures are emblems of calamity. THAT THOU CANST NOT SEE - Deep and fearful darkness; total night, so that nothing is visible. That is, the heaviest calamit...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    THE THIRD SERIES OF CONTROVERSIES CHAPTER 22 The Third Address of Eliphaz _ 1. Is not thy wickedness great? (Job 22:1)_ 2. In what Job had sinned (Job 22:6) 3. The omniscience of God and the ways...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB 22. THIRD SPEECH OF ELIPHAZ. The only new thing that Eliphaz has to say, is definitely to describe the sin of Job! Yet his mildness makes him end with bright promises. JOB 22:1. Is it not to Job'...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The consequence of this inhumanity and injustice is seen in the snares and terrors from God that surround Job. 11. This verse should probably be read, Or seest thou not the darkness, And the floods...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The Third Circle of Speeches In the first round of speeches the three friends exhausted the argument from the general conception of God. In the second they exhausted the argument from the operation o...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    OR DARKNESS— _Thou beholdest darkness, and not light._ Houbigant. Heath renders it, _Or is it dark, that thou canst not see?_ Observing that the path of the wicked man is here represented as covered w...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. Specific sins charged against Job, and their consequences (Job 22:6-11) TEXT 22:6-11 6 FOR THOU HAST TAKEN PLEDGES OF THY BROTHER FOR NOUGHT, And stripped the naked of their clothing. 7 Thou ha...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    22:11 waters (a-11) Others, 'Or seest thou not the darkness, and the floods of waters which.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE LAST SPEECH OF ELIPHAZ 1-11. Eliphaz ignoring Job's last speech, perhaps because he could not answer it, argues that God's treatment of man must be impartial, since He has nothing to gain or lose...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Job’s friends realised that such behaviour is evil. They thought that such behaviour was the reason for Job’s troubles....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 22 ELIPHAZ’S LAST SPEECH G...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    SNARES... ABOUT THEE. — That is, _Fear troubleth thee, or darkness, &c._ “If darkness and abundance of waters cover thee so that thou canst not see, is not God in the high heavens, though thou canst n...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אֹו ־חֹ֥שֶׁךְ לֹֽא ־תִרְאֶ֑ה וְֽ שִׁפְעַת ־מַ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    XIX. DOGMATIC AND MORAL ERROR Job 22:1 ELIPHAZ SPEAKS THE second colloquy has practically exhausted the subject of debate between Job and his friends. The three have really nothing more to say in t...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “ACQUAINT THYSELF WITH GOD” Job 22:1 Eliphaz opens the third cycle of the discussion with a speech altogether too hard and cruel. He begins with an _enumeration of Job's fancied misdeeds,_ Job 22:1....

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Here begins the third cycle in the controversy, and again EIiphaz is the first speaker. His address consisted of two movements. First, he made a definite charge against Job (1-20); and, second, he mad...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Or darkness, [that] thou canst not see; and (f) abundance of waters cover thee. (f) That is, manifold afflictions....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Waters, and misery, (Calmet) which such conduct deserved. (Haydock)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (5) В¶ 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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    OR DARKNESS, [THAT] THOU CANST NOT SEE,.... Or darkness is round about thee, thou art enveloped in it; meaning either judicial blindness, and darkness, and stupidity of mind, which must be his case, i...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Or darkness, [that] thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee. Ver. 11. _Or darkness, that thou canst not see_] _Sunt tenebrae supplicia, et damnatorum desperationes,_ saith Brentius her...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Therefore snares are round about thee_ For these and the like crimes thou art encompassed with dangers and calamities. _And sudden fear troubleth thee_ Besides thy present miseries, thou art tormente...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    or darkness, that thou canst not see, the night of suffering admitting no ray of consoling light; AND ABUNDANCE OF WATERS COVER THEE, bursting upon him with overwhelming misery. It was a bitter and un...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    ELIPHAZ CHARGES JOB WITH WICKEDNESS...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB'S SIN EXPOSED BEFORE GOD (vv.1-8) Eliphaz considered that he was representing God in speaking, and exposing what he imagined were the sins of Job. He first asks a question that it is well worth...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    "ABUNDANCE OF WATER COVERS YOU": Calamity has simply overwhelmed Job, like the waters of. flood. Crushing misfortunes are figuratively referred to as blinding darkness and destructive floods (Psalms 6...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    5-14 Eliphaz brought heavy charges against Job, without reason for his accusations, except that Job was visited as he supposed God always visited every wicked man. He charges him with oppression, and...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    DARKNESS; either, 1. A darkness and confusion of mind so great that thou canst not discern the true cause and use of all thy sufferings. Or, 2. Grievous calamities, which are oft called darkness, whi...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 22:11 darkness H2822 see H7200 (H8799) abundance H8229 water H4325 covers H3680 (H8762) darkness -...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Eliphaz's third discourse, accusing Job again of hypocrisy. CHARACTERS: God, Eliphaz, Job. CONCLUSION: It is the duty of those especially who are in affliction to keep up a perfect acquain...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Job 22:5. _Is not thy wickedness great?_ This speech of Eliphaz is cruel, and very much embittered; for it was mere suspicion that Job had robbed the widow, and stripped the naked. Job replies to it m...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Is not thy wickedness great?_ THE CHARGE AGAINST JOB I. Wrong in relation to man. In regard to the charge which he here brings against Job, it is worthy of note that whilst most expositors regard E...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 22:5 Eliphaz assumes that Job’s circumstances reveal significant EVIL in his life. He describes the likely ways that Job has sinned. ⇐

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _THIRD SPEECH OF ELIPHAZ THE TEMANITE_ Remonstrates with Job on his self-righteousness, and plainly charges him with grievous transgressions as the cause of his present sufferings; concludes with pro...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JOB 22:1 Eliphaz returns to the attack, but with observations that are at first strangely pointless and irrelevant, _e.g._ on the unprofitableness of man to God (verses l, 2), and on the s...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    So Eliphaz takes up the argument now. And the same old story: he accuses Job of being wicked and he actually makes many bad accusations. He said, Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise m...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Isaiah 8:22; Job 18:18; Job 18:6; Job 19:8; Joel 2:2;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Or — Either thou art troubled with fear of further evils or with the gross darkness of thy present state of misery. Waters — Variety of sore afflictions, which are frequently compared to water....

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