Job 10:22

The land of darkness like the blackness of death-shade, Where is no order, and where the light is as darkness.

Noyes 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— whence I shall not return—To the land of darkness and death-shade,

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Cross References

Job 17:13Yea, I look to the grave as my home; I have made my bed in darkness.

Job 38:17Have the gates of death been disclosed to thee, And hast thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?

Psalms 44:19Though thou hast crushed us in a land of jackals, And covered us with thick darkness.

Psalms 88:13To thee do I cry, O LORD! In the morning doth my cry come before thee.

Jeremiah 2:6They said not, Where is Jehovah, Who brought us up from the land of Egypt, Who led us through the wilderness, Through a land of deserts and pits, Through a land of drought and deathlike gloom, Through a land which no man passed through, And where no man dwelt?

Luke 16:26And besides all this, between us and you there is placed a great gulf, so that those who wish to cross from hence to you may not be able, and that those on that side cannot cross 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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