There is no gloom and no deep darkness, where evildoers can hide themselves.
Job 22:13 - Tree of Life Version Yet you say, ‘What does God know? Does He judge through such thick darkness? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
There is no gloom and no deep darkness, where evildoers can hide themselves.
He says in his heart: “God has forgotten. He hides His face—He will never see it.”
If I say: “Surely darkness covers me, night keeps light at a distance from me,”
They return at evening, snarling like a dog, prowling about the city.
to shoot from hiding at the innocent, shooting suddenly at him, with no fear.
Oy , those who go to great depths to hide their plans from Adonai! Their works are in the dark. They say, “Who sees us? Who knows us?”
Can anyone hide himself in places so secret that I will not see him? Do I not fill heaven and earth?” It is a declaration of Adonai.
Then He said to me: “Son of man, do you see what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his chamber of his carved idol? For they say, ‘Adonai does not see us. Adonai has forsaken the land.’”
He said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is very, very great; the land is full of blood and the city is full of corruption. For they say, ‘Adonai has forsaken the land, Adonai does not see!’
If they should dig down to Sheol, from there My hand will take them. If they should go up to heaven, from there will I bring them down.
If they should hide themselves at the top of Carmel, I will search them out and take them from there. If they hide themselves from My eyes at the bottom of the sea, from there I will command the sea serpent to bite them.
At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish the men whose spirits have hardened, who say in their hearts, ‘Adonai will do neither good nor evil.’