Job 10:22

A land of obscurity, like thick darkness, of death-shade and disorder, and which shineth like thick darkness.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 not return, unto a land of darkness and death-shade:

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Cross References

Job 17:13If I wait for hades as my house, in darkness, have spread out my couch;

Job 38:17Have the gates of death been disclosed to thee? And, the gates of the death-shade, couldst thou descry?

Psalms 44:19That thou shouldst have crushed us down in the place of wild dogs, And covered us over with a deadly shadow.

Psalms 88:13But, I, unto thee, O Yahweh, have cried for help, And, in the morning, my prayer will confront thee!

Jeremiah 2:6Neither said they, Where is Yahweh, Who brought us up out of the land of Egypt,—Who led us Through the desert, Through a land of wastes and clefts, Through a land of parched places and of death-shade, Through a land, Along which no man had passed, And in which no son of earth dwelt?

Luke 16:26And, besides all these things, betwixt us and you, a great chasm, hath been fixed,—so that, they who might wish to cross over from hence unto you, should not be able, nor any, from thence unto us, be crossing over.

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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