Job 10:22

A land of misery and darkness, where the shadow of death, and no order, but everlasting horror dwelleth.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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

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Cross References

Job 17:13If I wait hell is my house, and I have made my bed in darkness.

Job 38:17Have the gates of death been opened to thee, and hast thou seen the darksome doors?

Psalms 44:19And our heart hath not turned back : neither hast thou turned aside our steps from thy way.

Psalms 88:13Shall thy wonders be known in the dark; and thy justice in the land of forgetfulness?

Jeremiah 2:6And they have not said: Where is the Lord, that made us come up out of the land of Egypt? that led us through the desert, through a land uninhabited and unpassable, through a land of drought, and the image of death, through a land wherein no man walked, nor any man dwelt?

Luke 16:26And besides all this, between us and you, there is fixed a great chaos: so that they who would pass from hence to you, cannot, nor from thence come hither.

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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