Job 10:22

the land of total darkness where death's shadow lies, a place of chaos where light itself is darkness.”

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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 go to where I shall never return from, the land of darkness and the shadow of death—

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Cross References

Job 17:13What am I looking for? To make my home in Sheol, to make my bed in darkness?

Job 38:17Have you been shown where the gates of death are? Have you seen the gates of utter darkness?

Psalms 44:19Even so, you crushed us, and made us into a jackal's den. You have covered us with the darkness of death.

Psalms 88:13But I cry out to you for help; every morning I pray to you.

Jeremiah 2:6They didn't ask themselves, “Where is the Lord who led us from Egypt, who led us through the wasteland, through a land of deserts and ravines, a land of drought and darkness, a land that no one travels through and where no one lives?”

Luke 16:26Apart from that, there's a great gulf that stretches between us and you. Nobody who wants to cross from here to you can do so, and nobody can cross from there over 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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