Job 10:22

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

Darby Translation

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, and never to return, to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

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Cross References

Job 17:13If I wait, Sheol is my house; I spread my bed in the darkness:

Job 38:17Have the gates of death been revealed unto thee? and hast thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?

Psalms 44:19Though thou hast crushed us in the place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

Psalms 88:13But as for me, Jehovah, I cry unto thee, and in the morning my prayer cometh before thee.

Jeremiah 2:6And they said not, Where is Jehovah, that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us in the wilderness, in a land of deserts and of pits, in a land of drought and of the shadow of death, in a land that no one passeth through, and where no man dwelleth?

Luke 16:26And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm is fixed, so that those who desire to pass hence to you cannot, nor do they who [desire to cross] from there pass over unto 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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