The New John Gill Exposition of the Entire Bible Job 22:11
Or darkness, [that] thou canst not see…
Or darkness is
round about thee, thou art enveloped in it; meaning either judicial
blindness, and darkness, and stupidity of mind, which must be his case,
if he could not see the hand of God upon him, or the snares that were
about him, or was not troubled with sudden fear; or else the darkness
of affliction and calamity, which is often signified hereby, see
(Isaiah 8:22) (Lamentations 3:1,2) ; afflictive dispensations of Providence are
sometimes so dark, that a man cannot see the cause and reason of them,
or why it is he is brought into them; which was Job's case, and
therefore desires God would show him wherefore he contended with him,
(Job 10:9) ; nor can he see, perceive, or enjoy any light of comfort;
he is in inward darkness of soul, deprived of the light of God's
countenance, as well as he is in the outward darkness of adversity,
which is a most uncomfortable case, as it was this good man's; nor can
he see any end of the affliction, or any way to escape out of it, and
which were the present circumstances Job was in:
and abundance of waters cover thee;
afflictions, which are frequently
compared to many waters, and floods of them, because of the multitude
of them, their force and strength, the power and rapidity with which
they come; and because overflowing, overbearing, and overwhelming, and
threaten with utter ruin and destruction, unless stopped by the mighty
hand of God, who only can resist and restrain them; Eliphaz represents
Job like a man drowning, overflowed with a flood of water, and covered
with its waves, and in the most desperate condition, see (Psalms 69:1,2) .
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