Job 10:22

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

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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 whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

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Cross References

Job 17:13If I look for the nether-world as my house; if I have spread my couch in the darkness;

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

Psalms 44:19(44-20) Though Thou hast crushed us into a place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

Psalms 88:13(88-14) But as for me, unto Thee, O LORD, do I cry, and in the morning doth my prayer come to meet Thee.

Jeremiah 2:6Neither said they: 'Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt; that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?'

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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