Job 10:22

to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”

Majority Standard Bible

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—never to return—to a land of darkness and gloom,

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Cross References

Job 17:13If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

Job 38:17Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

Psalms 44:19But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals; You have covered us with deepest darkness.

Psalms 88:13But to You, O LORD, I cry for help; in the morning my prayer comes before You.

Jeremiah 2:6They did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and pits, a land of drought and darkness, a land where no one travels and no one lives?’

Luke 16:26And besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us and you, so that even those who wish cannot cross from here to you, nor can anyone cross from there 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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