Job 22:13
Modern Translations
New International Version
Yet you say, 'What does God know? Does he judge through such darkness?

New Living Translation
But you reply, ‘That’s why God can’t see what I am doing! How can he judge through the thick darkness?

English Standard Version
But you say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the deep darkness?

Berean Study Bible
Yet you say: ‘What does God know? Does He judge through thick darkness?

New American Standard Bible
“But you say, ‘What does God know? Can He judge through the thick darkness?

NASB 1995
"You say, 'What does God know? Can He judge through the thick darkness?

NASB 1977
“And you say, ‘What does God know? Can He judge through the thick darkness?

Amplified Bible
“You say, ‘What does God know [about me]? Can He judge through the thick darkness?

Christian Standard Bible
Yet you say, “What does God know? Can he judge through total darkness?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Yet you say: "What does God know? Can He judge through thick darkness?

Contemporary English Version
Do you think the deep darkness hides you from God?

Good News Translation
And yet you ask, "What does God know? He is hidden by clouds--how can he judge us?"

GOD'S WORD® Translation
You ask, 'What does God know? Can he judge [anything] from behind a dark cloud?

International Standard Version
You've asked, 'What does God know? Can he sort through pitch black darkness?'

NET Bible
But you have said, 'What does God know? Does he judge through such deep darkness?
Classic Translations
King James Bible
And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?

New King James Version
And you say, ‘What does God know? Can He judge through the deep darkness?

King James 2000 Bible
And you say, How does God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?

New Heart English Bible
You say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

World English Bible
You say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

American King James Version
And you say, How does God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?

American Standard Version
And thou sayest, What doth God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

A Faithful Version
And you say, 'What does God know? Can He judge through the dark cloud?

Darby Bible Translation
And thou sayest, What doth God know? will he judge through the dark cloud?

English Revised Version
And thou sayest, What doth God know? can he judge through the thick darkness?

Webster's Bible Translation
And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
But thou sayest, How should God know? can he iudge through the darke cloude?

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Wilt thou therfore say, Tushe, howe should God know? can he iudge through the darke cloude?

Coverdale Bible of 1535
wilt thou therfore saye: Tush, how shulde God knowe? Doth his dominion reach beyonde the cloudes?
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And you have said, How has God known? Does He judge through thickness?

Young's Literal Translation
And thou hast said, 'What -- hath God known? Through thickness doth He judge?

Smith's Literal Translation
And thou saidst How shall God know? Shall he judge in the cloud of darkness?

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou sayst: What doth God know? and he judgeth as it were through a mist.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And you say: “Well, what does God know?” and, “He judges, as if through a fog,”

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And you said: ‘What does God know? Will he judge within the thick darkness?’

Lamsa Bible
And yet you say, How does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
And thou sayest: 'What doth God know? Can He judge through the dark cloud?

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And thou has said, What does the Mighty One know? does he judge in the dark?
















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