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Source language
JPS Hebrew-English TANAKH   
ואמר אך-חשך ישופני ולילה אור בעדני
Hebrew - Transliteration via code library   
vAmr Ak-KHSHk ySHvpny vlylh Avr b`dny

Intermediate language
Vulgate (Latin)   
cadent super eos carbones ignis deicies eos in foveas ut non consurgant

King James Variants
American King James Version   
If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
King James 2000 (out of print)   
If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
King James Bible (Cambridge, large print)   
If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
Authorized (King James) Version   
If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
New King James Version   
If I say, “Surely the darkness shall fall on me,” Even the night shall be light about me;
21st Century King James Version   
If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me,” even the night shall be light about me.

Other translations
American Standard Version   
If I say, Surely the darkness shall overwhelm me, And the light about me shall be night;
Aramaic Bible in Plain English   
You have said, “The darkness will shine to me and the night will shine upon my face.”
Darby Bible Translation   
And if I say, Surely darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night;
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)   
And I said: Perhaps darkness shall cover me: and night shall be my light in my pleasures.
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance   
If I say, Surely the darkness shall overwhelm me, and the light about me shall be night;
English Standard Version Journaling Bible   
If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night,”
God's Word   
If I say, "Let the darkness hide me and let the light around me turn into night,"
Holman Christian Standard Bible   
If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light around me will be night"--
International Standard Version   
If I say, "Darkness will surely conceal me, and the light around me will become night,"
NET Bible   
If I were to say, "Certainly the darkness will cover me, and the light will turn to night all around me,"
New American Standard Bible   
If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me, And the light around me will be night,"
New International Version   
If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,"
New Living Translation   
I could ask the darkness to hide me and the light around me to become night--
Webster's Bible Translation   
If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
The World English Bible   
If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; the light around me will be night;"
EasyEnglish Bible   
I might say, ‘I will hide myself in the dark, and the light round me will change into night.’
Young‘s Literal Translation   
And I say, `Surely darkness bruiseth me, Then night [is] light to me.
New Life Version   
If I say, “For sure the darkness will cover me and the light around me will be night,”
The Voice Bible   
Even if I am afraid and think to myself, “There is no doubt that the darkness will swallow me, the light around me will soon be turned to night,”
Living Bible   
If I try to hide in the darkness, the night becomes light around me.
New Catholic Bible   
If I say, “Surely the darkness will conceal me and the day around me will turn to night,”
Legacy Standard Bible   
If I say, “Surely the darkness will bruise me, And the light around me will be night,”
Jubilee Bible 2000   
If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall shine because of me.
Christian Standard Bible   
If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light around me will be night”—
Amplified Bible © 1954   
If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me and the night shall be [the only] light about me,
New Century Version   
I could say, “The darkness will hide me. Let the light around me turn into night.”
The Message   
Is there anyplace I can go to avoid your Spirit? to be out of your sight? If I climb to the sky, you’re there! If I go underground, you’re there! If I flew on morning’s wings to the far western horizon, You’d find me in a minute— you’re already there waiting! Then I said to myself, “Oh, he even sees me in the dark! At night I’m immersed in the light!” It’s a fact: darkness isn’t dark to you; night and day, darkness and light, they’re all the same to you.
Evangelical Heritage Version ™   
And if I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light will become night around me,”
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light around me become night,”
Good News Translation®   
I could ask the darkness to hide me or the light around me to turn into night,
Wycliffe Bible   
And I said, In hap darknesses shall defoul me; and the night is my lightening in my delights. (And I said, Perhaps the darkness shall cover me; or the light all around me shall become my night.)
Contemporary English Version   
Or suppose I said, “I'll hide in the dark until night comes to cover me over.”
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
If I say, “Let only darkness cover me, and the light about me be night,”
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition   
If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and night wraps itself around me,”
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition   
If I say, ‘Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light around me become night’,
Common English Bible © 2011   
If I said, “The darkness will definitely hide me; the light will become night around me,”
Amplified Bible © 2015   
If I say, “Surely the darkness will cover me, And the night will be the only light around me,”
English Standard Version Anglicised   
If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night”,
New American Bible (Revised Edition)   
If I say, “Surely darkness shall hide me, and night shall be my light”—
New American Standard Bible   
If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me, And the light around me will be night,”
The Expanded Bible   
I could say, “The darkness will ·hide [cover] me. Let the light around me turn into night.”
Tree of Life Version   
If I say: “Surely darkness covers me, night keeps light at a distance from me,”
Revised Standard Version   
If I say, “Let only darkness cover me, and the light about me be night,”
New International Reader's Version   
Suppose I were to say, “I’m sure the darkness will hide me. The light around me will become as dark as night.”
BRG Bible   
If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
Complete Jewish Bible   
If I say, “Let darkness surround me, let the light around me be night,”
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised   
If I say, ‘Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light around me become night’,
Orthodox Jewish Bible   
If I say, Surely the choshech shall cover me, even the lailah shall be ohr about me.
Names of God Bible   
If I say, “Let the darkness hide me and let the light around me turn into night,”
Modern English Version   
If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light shall be as night about me,”
Easy-to-Read Version   
Suppose I wanted to hide from you and said, “Surely the darkness will hide me. The day will change to night and cover me.”
International Children’s Bible   
I could say, “The darkness will hide me. The light around me will turn into night.”
Lexham English Bible   
And if I should say, “Surely darkness will cover me, and the light around me will be as night,”
New International Version - UK   
If I say, ‘Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,’