Job 10:22

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

The land dark as midnight, [The land] of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as midnight.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֶ֤רֶץ עֵיפָ֨תָה ׀ כְּמ֥וֹ אֹ֗פֶל צַ֭לְמָוֶת וְלֹ֥א סְדָרִ֗ים וַתֹּ֥פַע כְּמוֹ־אֹֽפֶל׃ פ

Transliteration

ʾereṣ ʿêpātâ like ʾōpel ṣalmāwet and not sədārîm and tōpaʿ like ʾōpel

Grammar Details

*ʾereṣ*: noun, feminine singular construct - land of
*ʿêpātâ*: adjective, feminine singular - gloom
*ʾōpel*: noun, masculine singular - darkness
*ṣalmāwet*: noun, masculine singular - deep darkness/shadow of death
*sədārîm*: noun, masculine plural - order/arrangement
*tōpaʿ*: Hiphil imperfect, 3rd feminine singular - it shines

Word Meanings

*ʿêpātâ*: gloom/darkness/obscurity
*ʾōpel*: darkness/gloom/thick darkness
*ṣalmāwet*: deep darkness/shadow of death/gloom
*sədārîm*: order/arrangement/organization
*tōpaʿ*: it shines/it appears/it gives light

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Job 3:5 : 5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own; Let a cloud dwell upon it; Let all that maketh black the day terrify it.
Job 34:22 : 22 There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
Job 38:17 : 17 Have the gates of death been revealed unto thee? Or hast thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?
Ps 23:4 : 4 Yea, thou 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.
Ps 44:19 : 19 That thou hast sore broken us in the place of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death.
Ps 88:12 : 12 Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? And thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
Jer 2:6 : 6 Neither said they, Where is Jehovah 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?
Jer 13:16 : 16 Give glory to Jehovah 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 16:26 : 26 And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that they that would pass from hence to you may not be able, and that none may cross over from thence to us.

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