Job 34:22
Good News Translation
There is no darkness dark enough to hide a sinner from God.

New Revised Standard Version
There is no gloom or deep darkness where evildoers may hide themselves.

Contemporary English Version
No evil person can hide in the deepest darkness.

New American Bible
There is no darkness so dense that evildoers can hide in it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
There is no darkness, and there is no shadow of death, where they may be hid who work iniquity.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

There is no darkness, and there is no shadow of death, where they may be hid who work iniquity.

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Psalm 139:11,12 And I said: Perhaps darkness shall cover me: and night shall be my light in my pleasures. . . .

Isaiah 29:15 Woe to you that are deep of heart, to hide your counsel from the Lord: and their works are in the dark, and they say: Who seeth us, and who knoweth us?

Jeremiah 23:24 Shall a man be hid in secret places, and I not see him, saith the Lord? do not I fill heaven and earth, saith the Lord?

Amos 9:2,3 I saw the Lord standing upon the altar, and he said: Strike the hinges, and let the lintels be shook: for there is covetousness in the head of them all, and I will slay the last of them with the sword: there shall be no flight for them: they shall flee, and he that shall flee of them shall not be delivered. . . .

1 Corinthians 4:5 Therefore, judge not before the time: until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts. And then shall every man have praise from God.

Hebrews 4:13 Neither is there any creature invisible in his sight: but all things are naked and open to his eyes, to whom our speech is.

Revelation 6:15,16 And the kings of the earth and the princes and tribunes and the rich and the strong and every bondman and every freeman hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of mountains: . . .

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Job 3:5 Let darkness, and the shadow of death, cover it, let a mist overspread it, and let it be wrapped up in bitterness.

Job 24:17 If the morning suddenly appear, it is to them the shadow of death: and they walk in darkness as if it were in light.

Isaiah 9:2 The people that walked in darkness, have seen a great light: to them that dwelt in the region of the shadow of death, light is risen.

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Job 31:3 Is not destruction to the wicked, and aversion to them that work iniquity?

Psalm 5:5 Neither shall the wicked dwell near thee: nor shall the unjust abide before thy eyes.

Proverbs 10:29 The just shall never be moved: but the wicked shall not dwell on the earth.

Matthew 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity.

Luke 13:27 And he shall say to you: I know you not, whence you are. Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.

Context
Elihu Confirms God's Justice
21For his eyes are upon the ways of men, and he considereth all their steps. 22There is no darkness, and there is no shadow of death, where they may be hid who work iniquity.23For it is no longer in the power of man to enter into judgment with God.…
Cross References
Job 3:13
For now I should have been asleep and still, and should have rest in my sleep:

Job 10:21
Before I go and return no more, to a land that is dark and covered with the mist of death:

Job 11:20
But the eyes of the wicked shall decay, and the way to escape shall fail them, and their hope the abomination of the soul.

Job 31:3
Is not destruction to the wicked, and aversion to them that work iniquity?

Job 38:17
Have the gates of death been opened to thee, and hast thou seen the darksome doors?

Psalm 139:11
And I said: Perhaps darkness shall cover me: and night shall be my light in my pleasures.

Psalm 139:12
But darkness shall not be dark to thee, and night shall be light all the day: the darkness thereof, and the light thereof are alike to thee.

Jeremiah 23:24
Shall a man be hid in secret places, and I not see him, saith the Lord? do not I fill heaven and earth, saith the Lord?

Amos 9:2
I saw the Lord standing upon the altar, and he said: Strike the hinges, and let the lintels be shook: for there is covetousness in the head of them all, and I will slay the last of them with the sword: there shall be no flight for them: they shall flee, and he that shall flee of them shall not be delivered.

Amos 9:3
Though they go down even to hell, thence shall my hand bring them out: and though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down.

Job 34:21
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