What Does Job 22:11 Mean in the King James?
Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The verse doubles concealment: darkness takes sight away, then water covers the person who cannot see.
THE MEANING
Darkness blocks your sight while abundant waters cover you, so danger arrives together with disorientation. The image speaks from inside engulfment, where the force covering you also takes away your view.
THE ROOT
תְּכַסֶּךָּ
tekhasseka
GROWS FROM
כסה
The Hebrew root כסה (kasah) means to cover or conceal from sight.
The verb is addressed to a person: the waters do not merely surround you; they cover you, obscuring what sight could use for orientation. The Hebrew keeps concealment inside the image of engulfment.
ALSO GROWS
kasah: to cover, conceal
כָּסָה
This base form names the root action; Job’s inflected form makes the covering immediate by directing it onto you.
nikhsah: to be covered, become hidden
נִכְסָה
This form describes the state produced when something covers a person or thing, bringing out the loss of visibility in Job’s image.
hitkassah: to cover oneself, be covered
הִתְכַּסָּה
This reflexive form shows the same root turning toward the one under the covering; here the waters impose that condition.
THE PATTERN
Flood imagery depicts peril as encroachment that removes ordinary ground and sight.
And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep.THE THREAD
And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.Job’s waters cover a person; Genesis’s waters cover the highest hills. The same Hebrew root כסה (kasah), “cover,” scales the image from personal engulfment to a submerged world.
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