Job 10:22

the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as midnight.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

In Context

21before I go where I shall not return, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death,

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Cross References

Job 17:13If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,

Job 38:17Have the gates of death been revealed to thee? Or have thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?

Psalms 44:19that thou have greatly broken us in the place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

Psalms 88:13But to thee, O LORD, I have cried, and in the morning my prayer shall come before thee.

Jeremiah 2:6Nor did they say, Where is LORD who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that none pa

Luke 16:26And besides all these things, between us and you a great chasm is fixed, so that those here who want to cross over to you are not able, nor may those go across from there to us.

Matthew Henry on Job 10:15-22

14 If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity. 15 If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction; 16 For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou showest thyself marvellous upon me. 17 Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me. 18 Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh… Read the whole commentary →

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