KJV 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.
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Job 10:22
A land of darkness, as darkness [itself; and] of the shadow of death, without any order, and [where] the light [is] as darkness.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”
WEB World English Bible
the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.’”
ASV American Standard Version
The land dark as midnight, The land of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as midnight.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
A land of obscurity as thick darkness, Death-shade—and no order, And the shining is as thick darkness.’
Surrounding context — Job 10
19 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
20 [Are] not my days few? cease [then, and] let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
21 Before I go [whence] I shall not return, [even] to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
22 A land of darkness, as darkness [itself; and] of the shadow of death, without any order, and [where] the light [is] as darkness.
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Psalm 88:12Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, [and] make [it] gross darkness.Luke 16:26And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that [would come] from thence.Psalm 23:4Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou [art] with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.Job 3:5Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.Job 34:22[There is] no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.Psalm 44:19Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.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 no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?Job 38:17Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?
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