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Job 22:13

Job 22:13 is verse 13 of Job chapter 22, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

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

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King James Version

And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?

World English Bible

You say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

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Job 22:11–15 · Berean Standard Bible

11 it is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.

12 Is not God as high as the heavens? Look at the highest stars, how lofty they are!

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

14 Thick clouds veil Him so He does not see us as He traverses the vault of heaven.’

15 Will you stay on the ancient path that wicked men have trod?

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Psalms 10:11

He says to himself, “God has forgotten; He hides His face and never sees.”

Psalms 59:7

See what they spew from their mouths— sharp words from their lips: “For who can hear us?”

Psalms 73:11

The wicked say, “How can God know? Does the Most High have knowledge?”

Psalms 94:7

They say, “The LORD does not see; the God of Jacob pays no heed.”

Psalms 94:8

Take notice, O senseless among the people! O fools, when will you be wise?

Psalms 94:9

He who affixed the ear, can He not hear? He who formed the eye, can He not see?

Ezekiel 8:12

“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? For they are saying, ‘The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the land.’”

Ezekiel 9:9

He replied, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. The land is full of bloodshed, and the city is full of perversity. For they say, ‘The LORD has forsaken the land; the LORD does not see.’

Zephaniah 1:12

And at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish the men settled in complacency, who say to themselves, ‘The LORD will do nothing, either good or bad.’

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