even the darkness doesn’t hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.
Parallel translations
- KJV Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
- BSB even the darkness is not dark to You, but the night shines like the day, for darkness is as light to You.
- NKJV Indeed, the darkness shall not hide from You, But the night shines as the day; The darkness and the light are both alike to You.
- NASB Even darkness is not dark to You, And the night is as bright as the day. Darkness and light are alike to You.
- NLT but even in darkness I cannot hide from you. To you the night shines as bright as day. Darkness and light are the same to you.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Dan 2:22he reveals the deep and secret things; he knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.
- Job 34:22There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
- Exod 20:21The people stayed at a distance, and Moses came near to the thick darkness where God was.
- Heb 4:13There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.
- Job 26:6Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
- Exod 14:20It came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel; and there was the cloud and the darkness, yet gave it light by night: and one didn’t come near the other all night.
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