Job 10:22

A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.

Bible in Basic English

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 to the place from which I will not come back, to the land where all is dark and black,

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Cross References

Job 17:13If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;

Job 38:17Have the doors of death been open to you, or have the door-keepers of the dark ever seen you?

Psalms 44:19\44:18\Our hearts have not gone back, and our steps have not been turned out of your way;

Psalms 88:13\88:12\May there be knowledge of your wonders in the dark? or of your righteousness where memory is dead?

Jeremiah 2:6And they never said, Where is the Lord, who took us up out of the land of Egypt; who was our guide through the waste of sand, through an unplanted land full of deep holes, through a dry land of deep shade, which no one went through and where no man was living?

Luke 16:26And in addition, there is a deep division fixed between us and you, so that those who might go from here to you are not able to do so, and no one may come from you 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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