Psalms 139:11

WEB

¹¹If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me. The light around me will be night,”

KJV

¹¹If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.

BSB

¹¹If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light become night around me”—

FBV

¹¹If I asked the darkness to hide me, and light to become night around me,

Extra References

Job 12:22

²²He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.

Jeremiah 23:24

²⁴Can anyone hide himself in secret places so that I can’t see him?” says the LORD. “Don’t I fill heaven and earth?” says the LORD.

Psalms 94:7

⁷They say, “The LORD^[+] will not see, neither will Jacob’s God consider.”

¹¹He says in his heart, “God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.” ¹²Arise, LORD! God, lift up your hand! Don’t forget the helpless. ¹³Why does the wicked person condemn God, and say in his heart, “God won’t call me into account”?

Job 22:12-14

¹²“Isn’t God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are! ¹³You say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness? ¹⁴Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn’t see. He walks on the vault of the sky.’

Isaiah 29:15

¹⁵Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from the LORD, and whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us?” and “Who knows us?”