Job 10:22

the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.’”

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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 where I will not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

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Cross References

Job 17:13If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,

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

Psalms 44:19though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

Psalms 88:13But to you, LORD, I have cried. In the morning, my prayer comes before you.

Jeremiah 2:6They didn’t say, ‘Where is the LORD who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who 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 one passed through, and where no man lived?’

Luke 16:26Besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that those who want to pass from here to you are not able, and that no one may cross over 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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