Job 23:17 — Compare All Translations

English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

For I have not been cut off before darkness, And before me He covered thick darkness.

English ASV

Because I was not cut off before the darkness, Neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

English Amplified

Because I was not cut off before the darkness [of these woes befell me], neither has He covered the thick darkness from my face.

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

Because I was not cut off before the darkness [of these woes befell me], neither has He covered the thick darkness from my face.

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

Yet I am not silenced by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

Yet I am not destroyed by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he hidden the gloom from me.

English EASY 2024

Because of all my troubles, I seem to be in a very dark place. The darkness seems to cover me. But I will not be afraid to speak.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

What has happened to me is like a dark cloud over my face. But the darkness will not keep me quiet.

yet I am not silenced because of the darkness, nor because thick darkness covers my face.

English God's Word - GW 1995

But I am not silenced by the dark or by the thick darkness that covers my face.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

Yet I am not destroyed by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.

English KJV 1611

Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.

English LSB

But I am not silenced by the darkness, Nor thick darkness which covers me.

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

because I was not cut off from the presence of darkness, nor has He covered the darkness from my face.

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

But I am not silenced by the darkness, Nor deep gloom which covers me.

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

Yes, would that I had vanished in darkness, and that thick gloom were before me to conceal me.

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

Yet I have not been silent because of the darkness, because of the thick darkness that covered my face.

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

But even the darkness of death won't make me silent. When the darkness of the grave covers my face, I won't be quiet.

English NIV

Yet I am not silenced by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.

English NKJ 1982

Because I was not cut off from the presence of darkness, And He did not hide deep darkness from my face.

English NLT

Darkness is all around me; thick, impenetrable darkness is everywhere.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

If only I could vanish in darkness, and thick darkness would cover my face!

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

for I am hemmed in by darkness, and thick darkness covers my face.

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

terrified me with darkness all around me, thick, impenetrable darkness everywhere.

English Tyndale 1537

Thus can not I get out of darkness, the cloud hath so covered my face.

Job 23:17 — Compare Translations