Job 34 · Verse 22

Job 34:22

There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
Job 34:22, King James Version

Job 34:22 in other translations

BSBThere is no darkness or deep shadow where the workers of iniquity can hide.
WEBThere is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
ASVThere is no darkness, nor thick gloom, Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
YLTThere is no darkness nor death-shade, For workers of iniquity to be hidden there;
DARBYThere is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
BBEThere is no dark place, and no thick cloud, in which the workers of evil may take cover.
WebsterThere is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

What does Job 34:22 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
22. shadow of death--thick darkness (Am 9:2, 3; Psa 139:12).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 22 There is no darkness - In this life; and no shadow of death in the other world - no annihilation in which the workers of iniquity may hide themselves, or take refuge.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 34:16-30

Elihu appeals directly to Job himself. Could he suppose that God was like those earthly princes, who hate right, who are unfit to rule, and prove the scourges of mankind? It is daring presumption to condemn God's proceedings, as Job had done by his discontents. Elihu suggests divers considerations to Job, to produce in him high thoughts of God, and so to persuade him to submit. Job had often wished to plead his…

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Job 34:22 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

אֵֽין\־'ein-there notH369
חֹ֭שֶׁךְCho.shekh[is] darknessH2822
וְאֵ֣יןve.'Einand there notH369
צַלְמָ֑וֶתtzal.Ma.vet[is] deep darknessH6757
לְהִסָּ֥תֶרle.hi.Sa.terto hide themselvesH5641
שָׁ֝֗םSamthereH8033
פֹּ֣עֲלֵיPo.'a.lei[those who] doH6466
אָֽוֶן\׃'A.ven<of> wickednessH205

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Cross references for Job 34:22

  • Hebrews 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.

  • Amos 9:2-3

    Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down: 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 shall bite them:

  • Proverbs 10:29

    The way of the Lord is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.

  • Psalms 139:11-12

    If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me. Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.

  • Jeremiah 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.

  • Luke 13:27

    But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.

  • Job 24:17

    For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

  • Revelation 6:15-16

    And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:

  • Job 31:3

    Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?

  • Psalms 5:5

    The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.

  • Isaiah 9:2

    The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
no.
Ps 139:11,12; Isa 29:15; Jer 23:24; Am 9:2,3; 1Co 4:5; Heb 4:13
Re 6:15,16
nor.
3:5; 24:17; Isa 9:2
the.
31:3; Ps 5:5; Pr 10:29; Mt 7:23; Lu 13:27

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Context

  • Job 34:21

    For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.

  • Job 34:22

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

  • Job 34:23

    For he will not lay upon man more than right; that he should enter into judgment with God.

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Job 34:22 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		No hay tinieblas ni sombra de muerte donde se encubran los que obran maldad.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Il n’y a pas de ténèbres, il n’y a pas d’ombre de la mort, où puissent se cacher les ouvriers d’iniquité.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Da ist keine Finsternis und kein Todesschatten, daß sich darein verbergen könnten, die Frevel tun.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Non sunt tenebræ, et non est umbra mortis, ut abscondantur ibi qui operantur iniquitatem,