Job 22:11 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹¹Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.

Job 22:11 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Lamentations 3:54
Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
Psalms 69:1-2
To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David. Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul. …
Jonah 2:3
For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.
Job 19:8
He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
Psalms 124:4-5
Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul: …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 5-14)

Eliphaz and his companions had condemned Job, in general, as a wicked man and a hypocrite; but none of them had descended to particulars, nor drawn up any articles of impeachment against him, until Eliphaz did so here, where he positively and expressly charges him with many high crimes and misdemeanours, which, if he had really been guilty of them, might well have justified them in their harsh cen…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 11)

11. that--so that thou. abundance--floods. Danger by floods is a less frequent image in this book than in the rest of the Old Testament (Job 11:16; 27:20).