Job 23:17 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁷ Because I was not cut off before the darkness, Neither did he cover the thick darkness from 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, behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again.

Job 10:18

Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me.

Job 10:19

I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

Job 15:22

He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, And he is waited for of the sword:

Job 18:18

He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.

Job 18:6

The light shall be dark in his tent, And his lamp above him shall be put out.

Job 19:8

He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.

Job 22:11

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

Job 6:9

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

Isaiah 57:1

The righteous perisheth and no man layeth it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.