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Complete Jewish Bible

Job 22:14

The clouds veil him off, so that he can't see; he just wanders around in heaven.'

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Anthropomorphisms;   Blasphemy;   Blindness;   God Continued...;   Heaven;   Infidelity;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Clouds;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Eliphaz;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Cloud, Cloud of the Lord;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Circuit;   Cloud;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Heaven;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Circuit;   Job, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Circuit;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Cloud;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Circuit;   Cloud;   Eliphaz (2);   Job, Book of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Cloud;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Clouds veil him so that he cannot see,as he walks on the circle of the sky.”
Hebrew Names Version
Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn't see. He walks on the vault of the sky.'
King James Version
Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.
English Standard Version
Thick clouds veil him, so that he does not see, and he walks on the vault of heaven.'
New Century Version
Thick clouds cover him so he cannot see us as he walks around high up in the sky.'
New English Translation
Thick clouds are a veil for him, so he does not see us, as he goes back and forth in the vault of heaven.'
Amplified Bible
'Thick clouds are a hiding place for Him, so that He cannot see, And He walks on the vault (circle) of the heavens.'
New American Standard Bible
'Clouds are a hiding place for Him, so that He cannot see; And He walks on the vault of heaven.'
World English Bible
Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn't see. He walks on the vault of the sky.'
Geneva Bible (1587)
The cloudes hide him that he can not see, and he walketh in the circle of heauen.
Legacy Standard Bible
Clouds are a hiding place for Him, so that He cannot see;And He walks on the vault of heaven.'
Berean Standard Bible
Clouds veil Him so that He cannot see, as He traverses heaven's horizon.'
Contemporary English Version
Do thick clouds cover his eyes, as he walks around heaven's dome high above the earth?
Darby Translation
Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh on the vault of the heavens.
Easy-to-Read Version
Thick clouds hide us from his eyes, so he cannot see us as he walks around the edge of the sky.'
George Lamsa Translation
Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that men cannot see him; and he walks upon the circle of the heaven.
Good News Translation
You think the thick clouds keep him from seeing, as he walks on the dome of the sky.
Lexham English Bible
Thick clouds are a covering for him, so that he does not see; and he walks about on the dome of heaven.'
Literal Translation
Clouds are a covering for Him, and He does not see; and He walks the circuit of the heavens.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Tush, the cloudes couer him, yt he maye not se, for he dwelleth in heauen.
American Standard Version
Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he seeth not; And he walketh on the vault of heaven.
Bible in Basic English
Thick clouds are covering him, so that he is unable to see; and he is walking on the arch of heaven.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thick clouds are a covering to Him, that He seeth not; and He walketh in the circuit of heaven.'
King James Version (1611)
Thicke cloudes are a couering to him that he seeth not, and hee walketh in the circuit of heauen.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Tushe, the cloudes couer him that he may not see, and he walketh on the top of heauen.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
A cloud is his hiding-place, and he shall not be seen; and he passes through the circle of heaven.
English Revised Version
Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
A cloude is his hidyng place, and he biholdith not oure thingis, and he `goith aboute the herris of heuene.
Update Bible Version
Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he does not see; And he walks on the vault of heaven.
Webster's Bible Translation
Thick clouds [are] a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.
New King James Version
Thick clouds cover Him, so that He cannot see, And He walks above the circle of heaven.'
New Living Translation
For thick clouds swirl about him, and he cannot see us. He is way up there, walking on the vault of heaven.'
New Life Bible
Clouds cover Him so that He cannot see. He walks on the roof of heaven.'
New Revised Standard
Thick clouds enwrap him, so that he does not see, and he walks on the dome of heaven.'
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Dark clouds, are a veil to him, and he cannot see, or, the vault of the heavens, doth he walk?
Douay-Rheims Bible
The clouds are his covert, and he doth not consider our things, and he walketh about the poles of heaven.
Revised Standard Version
Thick clouds enwrap him, so that he does not see, and he walks on the vault of heaven.'
Young's Literal Translation
Thick clouds [are] a secret place to Him, And He doth not see;' And the circle of the heavens He walketh habitually,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'Clouds are a hiding place for Him, so that He cannot see; And He walks on the vault of heaven.'

Contextual Overview

5 Isn't it because your wickedness is great? Aren't your iniquities endless? 6 "For you kept your kinsmen's goods as collateral for no reason, you stripped the poorly clothed of what clothing they have, 7 you didn't give water to the weary to drink, you withheld food from the hungry. 8 As a wealthy man, an owner of land, and as a man of rank, who lives on it, 9 you sent widows away empty-handed and left the arms of orphans crushed. 10 "No wonder there are snares all around you, and sudden terror overwhelms you, 11 or darkness , so that you can't see, and a flood of water that covers you up! 12 "Isn't God in the heights of heaven, looking [down even] on the highest stars? 13 Yet you say, ‘What does God know? Can he see through thick darkness to judge? 14 The clouds veil him off, so that he can't see; he just wanders around in heaven.'

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Job 34:22, Psalms 33:14, Psalms 97:2, Psalms 139:1, Psalms 139:2, Psalms 139:11, Psalms 139:12, Jeremiah 23:24, Luke 12:2, Luke 12:3

Reciprocal: Genesis 3:8 - hid Genesis 4:9 - I know Job 11:11 - he seeth Job 24:15 - No eye Psalms 10:11 - God Psalms 19:6 - circuit Psalms 73:11 - How Isaiah 29:15 - seek Isaiah 47:10 - thou hast said

Cross-References

Genesis 22:4
On the third day, Avraham raised his eyes and saw the place in the distance.
Genesis 22:5
Avraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey. I and the boy will go there, worship and return to you."
Genesis 22:8
Avraham replied, "God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son"; and they both went on together.
Genesis 22:10
Then Avraham put out his hand and took the knife to kill his son.
Genesis 22:13
Avraham raised his eyes and looked, and there behind him was a ram caught in the bushes by its horns. Avraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering in place of his son.
Genesis 22:14
Avraham called the place Adonai Yir'eh [ Adonai will see (to it), Adonai provides] — as it is said to this day, "On the mountain Adonai is seen."
Genesis 22:17
I will most certainly bless you; and I will most certainly increase your descendants to as many as there are stars in the sky or grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the cities of their enemies,
Genesis 28:19
and named the place Beit-El [house of God]; but the town had originally been called Luz.
Genesis 32:30
Ya‘akov asked him, "Please tell me your name." But he answered, "Why are you asking about my name?" and blessed him there.
Exodus 17:15
Moshe built an altar, called it Adonai Nissi [ Adonai is my banner/miracle],

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thick clouds [are] a covering to him, that he seeth not,.... Thus Job is made to speak, or to reason as atheistical persons, or such who are inclined to atheism would, who take God to be altogether such an one as themselves; as that because thick clouds hide objects, as the sun, and moon, and stars, from their sight, therefore they must hide men and their actions from the sight of God; whereas there is nothing between God and man to hide them from him, let them be what they will, clouds as thick and as dark as can be imagined, yet his eyes are upon the ways of man, and see all his goings, nor is there any darkness that can hide from him, Job 34:21;

and he walketh in the circuit of heaven; within which he keeps himself, and never looks down upon the earth, or takes any notice of what is done there; quite contrary to Psalms 14:3; as if he only took his walks through the spacious orb of heaven, and delighted himself in viewing the celestial mansions, and the furniture of them, but had no regard to anything below them; whereas, though he walks in the circuit of heaven, he also sits upon the circle of the earth, Isaiah 41:22; Eliphaz seems here to ascribe the sentiments perhaps of the Zabians in former times to Job, and since adopted by some philosophers; that God only regards the heavenly bodies, and supports them in their beings, and regulates and directs their motions, and leaves all things below to be governed and influenced by them, as judging it unworthy of him to be concerned with things on earth. Indeed the earth and the inhabitants of it are unworthy of his notice and care, and of his providential visits, but he does humble himself to look upon things on earth as well as in heaven, Psalms 8:4; to make Job reason after this Epicurean manner was doing great injustice to his character, who most firmly believed both the being and providence of God, and that as extending to all things here below, see Job 12:13.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thick clouds are a covering to him - This is to be understood as expressing what Eliphaz regarded as the sentiment of Job - that so thick clouds intervened between him and man that he could not take cognizance of what was going forward on earth.

And he walketh in the circuit of heaven - Upon the arch of heaven, as it seems to be bent over our heads. He walks above that cerulean, so high, that he cannot see what occurs on earth, and to punish mortals. This was not an uncommon sentiment among the ancients, though it is here, with the greatest injustice, attributed to Job. A similar sentiment is expressed by Lucretius, as quoted by Rosenmuller and Noyes:

Omnis enim per se Divum natura necesse est

Immortali aevo summa cum pace fruatur,

Semota a nostris rebus, sejunctaque longe.

Nam privata dolore omni, privata periclis,

Ipsa suis pollens opibus, nihil in liga nostri,

Nec bene promeritus capitur, nec tangitur ira.

Compare Isaiah 29:15.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 22:14. He walketh in the circuit of heaven — He confines himself to those infinitely exalted regions and cares nothing for the inhabitants of the earth.


 
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