Job 23:17

NETBible	Yet I have not been silent because of the darkness, because of the thick darkness that covered my face.¹
NIV © biblegateway Job 23:17	Yet I am not silenced by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.
NASB © biblegateway Job 23:17	But I am not silenced by the darkness, Nor deep gloom which covers me.
NLT © biblegateway Job 23:17	Darkness is all around me; thick, impenetrable darkness is everywhere.
MSG © biblegateway Job 23:17	I'm completely in the dark, I can't see my hand in front of my face.
BBE © SABDAweb Job 23:17	For I am overcome by the dark, and by the black night which is covering my face.
NRSV © bibleoremus Job 23:17	If only I could vanish in darkness, and thick darkness would cover my face!
NKJV © biblegateway Job 23:17	Because I was not cut off from the presence of darkness, And He did not hide deep darkness from my face.
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KJV	Because I was not cut off <06789> (8738) before <06440> the darkness <02822>_, [neither] hath he covered <03680> (8765) the darkness <0652> from my face <06440>_.
NASB © biblegateway Job 23:17	But I am not silenced <06789> by the darkness <02822> , Nor <03808> deep gloom <0652> which covers <03680> me.
LXXM	ou <3364> ADV gar <1063> PRT hdein {V-YAI-1S} oti <3754> CONJ epeleusetai {V-FMI-3S} moi <1473> P-DS skotov <4655> N-ASN pro <4253> PREP proswpou <4383> N-GSN de <1161> PRT mou <1473> P-GS ekaluqen <2572> V-AAI-3S gnofov <1105> N-NSM
NET [draft] ITL	Yet <03588> I have not <03808> been silent <06789> because <06440> of the darkness <02822> , because <06440> of the thick darkness <0652> that covered <03680> my face.
HEBREW	lpa <0652> hok <03680> ynpmw <06440> Ksx <02822> ynpm <06440> ytmun <06789> al <03808> yk (23:17) <03588>


NETBible	Yet I have not been silent because of the darkness, because of the thick darkness that covered my face.¹
NET Notes	¹tn This is a very difficult verse. The Hebrew text literally says: “for I have not been destroyed because of darkness, and because of my face [which] gloom has covered.” Most commentators omit the negative adverb, which gives the meaning that Job is enveloped in darkness and reduced to terror. The verb נִצְמַתִּי (nitsmatti) means “I have been silent” (as in Arabic and Aramaic), and so obviously the negative must be retained – he has not been silent.