Contemporary English Version
God has covered me with darkness, but I refuse to be silent.

New American Bible
Yes, would that I had vanished in darkness, hidden by the thick gloom before me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For I have not perished because of the darkness that hangs over me, neither hath the mist covered my face.

For I have not perished because of the darkness that hangs over me, neither hath the mist covered my face.

cut off

Job 6:9 And that he that hath begun may destroy me, that he may let loose his hand, and cut me off?

2 Kings 22:20 Therefore I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy sepulchre in peace; that thy eyes may not see all the evils which I will bring upon this place.

Isaiah 57:1 The just perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart, and men of mercy are taken away, because there is none that understandeth; for the just man is taken away from before the face of evil.

the darkness from

Job 15:22 He believeth not that he may return from darkness to light, looking round about for the sword on every side.

Job 18:6,18 The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and the lamp that is over him, shall be put out. . . .

Job 19:8 He hath hedged in my path round about, and I cannot pass, and in my way he hath set darkness.

Job 22:11 And didst thou think that thou shouldst not see darkness, and that thou shouldst not be covered with the violence of overflowing waters?