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Job 23:16–17

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16God has made my heart faint;

the Almightyv has terrified me.*

17If only I could vanish in darkness,

and thick darkness would cover my face!w*

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Footnotes

  1. vTraditional rendering of Heb Shaddai
  2. wOr But I am not destroyed by the darkness; he has concealed the thick darkness from me

Cross references

  1. *Ps 22:14; Jer 51:46
  2. *Job 10:18, 19; 19:8

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

God has made my heart faint;

the Almighty has terrified me;

yet I am not silenced because of the darkness,

nor because thick darkness covers my face.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

God has made my heart faint;

the Almighty has terrified me.

Yet I am not silenced by the darkness,

by the thick darkness that covers my face.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

God has made my heart faint;

the Almighty has terrified me.

Yet I am not destroyed by the darkness,

by the thick darkness that covers my face.

NLTNew Living Translation

God has made me sick at heart;

the Almighty has terrified me.

Darkness is all around me;

thick, impenetrable darkness is everywhere.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Indeed, God has made my heart faint,

and Shaddai has terrified me.

Indeed, I have not been silenced because of darkness,

and because of me he conceals thick darkness.

KJV 1900King James Version

For God maketh my heart soft,

And the Almighty troubleth me:

Because I was not cut off before the darkness,

Neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.