Job 22:13
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And thou sayest, ‘How doth God know? Can He judge through the dark cloud?
And thou sayest, What doth God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?
“You say, ‘What does God know [about me]? Can He judge through the thick darkness?
Therefore you say, How and what does God know [about me]? Can He judge through the thick darkness?
And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?
Yet you say, “What does God know? Can he judge through total darkness?
Yet you say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through total darkness?
You say: “What does God know? Can he judge through thick clouds?
Yet you say, ‘What does God know? Can he see through thick darkness to judge?
Do you think the deep darkness hides you from God?
And thou sayest, What doth God know? will he judge through the dark cloud?
And thou sayst: What doth God know? and he judgeth as it were through a mist.
But you might say, ‘What does God know? Can he see through the dark clouds to judge us?
So you say, “God does not know about us. He cannot judge us, because darkness hides us from him.
But you say, “What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?
But you say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the deep darkness?
But you say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the deep darkness?
But you ask, ‘What does God know? Can he judge us through the ·dark clouds [thick darkness]?
But thou sayest, How should God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?
You ask, ‘What does God know? Can he judge ⌞anything⌟ from behind a dark cloud?
And yet you ask, “What does God know? He is hidden by clouds—how can he judge us?”
Yet you say: “What does God know? Can He judge through thick darkness?
But you say, ‘God knows nothing. He cannot judge us through the dark clouds.
You’ve asked, ‘What does God know? Can he sort through pitch black darkness?’
And thou shalt say, What does God know? How can he judge through the darkness?
And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?
And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?
You say, ‘What does God know? Can He judge through the dense gloom?
And you ask, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through deep gloom?
But you reply, ‘That is why he can’t see what I am doing! How can he judge through the thick darkness?
“You agree, don’t you, that God is in charge? He runs the universe—just look at the stars! Yet you dare raise questions: ‘What does God know? From that distance and darkness, how can he judge? He roams the heavens wrapped in clouds, so how can he see us?’
And you say, ‘What does God know? Can He judge through the dark cloud?
You ask, ‘What does El know? Can he judge anything from behind a dark cloud?
Yet you say, “What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?
But you say, ‘What does God know? Can He judge through the thick darkness?
“You say, ‘What does God know? Can He judge through the thick darkness?
Even so, you say, ‘What does God know? How can he possibly judge through such deep darkness?
But you ask, ‘What does God know? Can he judge us through the dark clouds?
But you have said, ‘What does God know? Does he judge through such deep darkness?
But you still say, ‘What does God know? Can he see through the darkest clouds to judge us?
Yet you say, ‘What does God know? Does he judge through such darkness?
Yet you say, “What does God know? Does he judge through such darkness?
And you say, ‘What does God know? Can He judge through the deep darkness?
So you say, ‘What does God know? Can He judge through the darkness?
But you reply, ‘That’s why God can’t see what I am doing! How can he judge through the thick darkness?
Therefore you say, “What does God know? Can he judge through the deep darkness?
Therefore you say, “What does God know? Can he judge through the deep darkness?
Therefore you say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the deep darkness?
Therefore you say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the deep darkness?
And thou sayest, How doth El know? Can He judge through the thick cloud?
“But you say, ‘How should God know? Can He judge through the dark cloud?
Therefore you say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the deep darkness?
Therefore you say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the deep darkness?
Yet you say, ‘What does God know? Does He judge through such thick darkness?
But you—you say, “What does God know? Can He send His judgments through such thick darkness?
You say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?
And yet thou sayest, What soothly knoweth God? and, He deemeth as by darkness. (And yet thou sayest, Truly what knoweth God? and, Can he judge through all that darkness?)
And thou hast said, `What -- hath God known? Through thickness doth He judge?
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