Job 10:22

a land of misery and darkness, where the shadow of death, and nothing else but everlasting horror, dwells.

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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 depart and return no more to a land that is dark and covered with the fog of death,

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Cross References

Job 17:13If I should wait, the underworld is my house, and in darkness I have spread out my bed.

Job 38:17Have the gates of death been opened to you, and have you seen the doors of darkness?

Psalms 88:13You created the north and the sea. Tabor and Hermon will exult in your name.

Jeremiah 2:6And they have not said: ‘Where is the Lord, who caused us to ascend from the land of Egypt; who led us through the desert, through an uninhabited and impassable land, through a land of drought and of the image of death, through a land in which no one walked and in which no man lived?’

Luke 16:26And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been established, so that those who might want to cross from here to you are not able, nor can someone cross from there to here.’

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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