Job 10:22

A land of obscurity as thick darkness, Death-shade — and no order, And the shining [is] as thick darkness.'

Young's Literal Translation

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 return not, Unto a land of darkness and death-shade,

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Cross References

Job 17:13If I wait — Sheol [is] my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch.

Job 38:17Revealed to thee were the gates of death? And the gates of death-shade dost thou see?

Psalms 44:19But Thou hast smitten us in a place of dragons, And dost cover us over with death-shade.

Psalms 88:13And I, unto Thee, O Jehovah, I have cried, And in the morning doth my prayer come before Thee.

Jeremiah 2:6And have not said, Where [is] Jehovah, Who bringeth us up out of the land of Egypt, Who leadeth us in a wilderness, In a land of deserts and pits, In a dry land, and of death-shade, In a land — none hath passed through it, Nor dwelt hath man there?'

Luke 16:26and besides all these things, between us and you a great chasm is fixed, so that they who are willing to go over from hence unto you are not able, nor do they from thence to us pass through.

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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