Job 23:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁷ If only I could vanish in darkness, and thick darkness would cover my face!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ Because I was not cut off before the darkness, Neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ Because I was not cut off before the darkness [of these woes befell me], neither has He covered the thick darkness from my face.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ Because I was not cut off before the darkness, Neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ Still I’m not annihilated by darkness; he has hidden deep darkness from me.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ Yet I have not perished because of the threatening darkness, nor has gloom covered my face.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ For I have not perished because of the darkness that hangs over me: neither hath the mist covered my face.

Job 23:17 Cross References

2 Kings 22:20

Therefore, I will gather you to your ancestors, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace; your eyes shall not see all the disaster that I will bring on this place.’ ” They took the message back to the king.

Job 10:18

“ ‘Why did you bring me forth from the womb? Would that I had died before any eye had seen me

Job 10:19

and were as though I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave.

Job 15:22

They despair of returning from darkness, and they are destined for the sword.

Job 18:18

They are thrust from light into darkness and driven out of the world.

Job 18:6

The light is dark in their tent, and the lamp above them is put out.

Job 19:8

He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.

Job 22:11

or darkness so that you cannot see; a flood of water covers you.

Job 6:9

that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!

Isaiah 57:1

The righteous perish, and no one considers why; the devout are taken away, while no one understands that it is due to evil that the righteous are taken away.