Job 22:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Therefore you say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the deep darkness? More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And thou sayest, How doth God know? Can he judge through the dark cloud? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Therefore you say, How and what does God know [about me]? Can He judge through the thick darkness? American Standard Version (1901) And thou sayest, What doth God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness? Common English Bible You say: “What does God know? Can he judge through thick clouds? Catholic Public Domain Version And you say: "Well, what does God know?" and, "He judges, as if through a fog," Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And thou sayst: What doth God know? And he judgeth as it were through a mist. |
They think in their heart, “God has forgotten; he has hidden his face; he will never see it.”
If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and night wraps itself around me,”
Where can I go from your spirit? Or where can I flee from your presence?
There they are, bellowing with their mouths, with sharp words on their lips, for “Who,” they think, “will hear us?”
They hold fast to their evil purpose; they talk of laying snares secretly, thinking, “Who can see us?
Woe to those who hide a plan too deep for the Lord, whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us? Who knows us?”
Who can hide in secret places so that I cannot see them? says the Lord. Do I not fill heaven and earth? says the Lord.
Then he said to me, “Mortal, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in his room of images? For they say, ‘The Lord does not see us; the Lord has forsaken the land.’ ”
He said to me, “The guilt of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great; the land is full of bloodshed and the city full of perversity, for they say, ‘The Lord has forsaken the land, and the Lord does not see.’
Though they dig into Sheol, from there shall my hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down.
Though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, from there I will search out and take them; and though they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.
At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the people who settle like dregs in wine, those who say in their hearts, “The Lord will not do good, nor will he do harm.”