King James Version
Job 22:14 in the King James Version says “Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.” — study this verse from Job chapter 22 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.”
Job 22:14 · KJV
Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are! height of the stars: Heb. head of the stars
And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud? How: or, What
Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.
Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood: whose: Heb. a flood was poured upon their foundation
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Thick clouds”
H5645properly, an envelope, i.e., darkness (or density, 2 chronicles 4:17); specifically, a (scud) cloud; also a copse
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
“to him that he seeth”
H7200to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
“of heaven”
H8064the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies r
“not and he walketh”
H1980to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
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