Job 10:22

A land of thick darkness, as darkness itself; a land of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

Revised Version 1895

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, even 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 mine house; if I have spread my couch in the darkness;

Job 38:17Have the gates of death been revealed unto thee? or hast thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?

Psalms 44:19That thou hast sore broken us in the place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

Psalms 88:13But unto thee, O LORD, have I cried, and in the morning shall my prayer come before thee.

Jeremiah 2:6Neither said they, 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 pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that none passed through, and where no man dwelt?

Luke 16:26And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that they which would pass from hence to you may not be able, and that none may cross over from thence 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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