Job 10:22

A land of utter gloom, as of the darkness of the shadow of death, without any order, and the light of which is like utter gloom.

Leeser Tanakh

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 not, to the land of darkness and the shadow of death,

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Cross References

Job 17:13When I hope for the nether world as my house; in the darkness have I spread my couch;

Job 38:17Were the gates of death ever laid open unto thee? or canst thou see the doors of the shadow of death?

Psalms 44:19(44:20) Even when thou didst crush us in the abode of monsters, and cover us with the shadow of death.

Psalms 88:13(88:14) Yet I cry indeed aloud unto thee, O Lord; and in the morning shall my prayer come before thee.

Jeremiah 2:6That they said not, 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 wildness, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land through which no one had passed, and where no man had 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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