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Job 34:22

There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

KJV

Non sunt tenebræ, et non est umbra mortis, ut abscondantur ibi qui operantur iniquitatem,

Vulgate

οὐδὲ ἔσται τόπος τοῦ κρυβῆναι τοὺς ποιοῦντας τὰ ἄνομα·

LXX

There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

ASV

אֵֽין חֹ֭שֶׁךְ וְ/אֵ֣ין צַלְמָ֑וֶת לְ/הִסָּ֥תֶר שָׁ֝֗ם פֹּ֣עֲלֵי אָֽוֶן

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֵ֥ין
'yn
noun · 787×
אָֽוֶן
'vn
noun · 78×
ה
h
adverb · 827×
חֹ֔שֶׁךְ
chshk
noun · 80×
נִי
ny
verb · 82×
פֹּ֣עֲלֵי
p'ly
verb · 55×
צַלְמָֽוֶת
tslmvt
noun · 18×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Amos 9:2 — Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down:
  • Amos 9:3 — And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he s
  • Ezek 8:8 — Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door.
  • Heb 4:13 — Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
  • Isa 29:15 — Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
  • Jer 23:24 — Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.
  • Job 3:5 — Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
  • Job 12:22 — He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.
  • Job 31:3 — Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
  • Matt 4:16 — The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.
  • Prov 10:29 — The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
  • Ps 139:11 — If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
  • Ps 139:12 — Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.