Job 10:22
A land of darkness, like darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
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Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts
A land of gloom like deep darkness, a land of shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.
King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)
A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers
The land{H776} dark{H5890} as midnight,{H652} [The land] of the shadow of death,{H6757} without any order,{H5468} And where the light{H3313} is as midnight.{H652}
King James Version with Strong's Numbers
A land{H776} of darkness{H5890}, as darkness{H652} itself; and of the shadow of death{H6757}, without any order{H5468}, and where the light{H3313}{(H8686)} is as darkness{H652}.
Coverdale Bible (1535)
yee into that darck clowdy londe & deadly shadowe, where as is no ordre, but terrible feare as in the darcknesse.
Geneva Bible (1560)
Into a land, I say, darke as darknes it selfe, and into the shadow of death, where is none order, but the light is there as darkenesse.
Bishops' Bible (1568)
Yea a lande as darke as darknesse it selfe, and into the shadowe of death where is none order, but the light is there as darknesse.
Authorized King James Version (1611)
A land of darkness, as darkness [itself; and] of the shadow of death, without any order, and [where] the light [is] as darkness.
Webster's Bible (1833)
The land dark as midnight, Of the shadow of death, without any order, Where the light is as midnight.'"
Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)
A land of obscurity as thick darkness, Death-shade -- and no order, And the shining `is' as thick darkness.'
American Standard Version (1901)
The land dark as midnight, `The land' of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as midnight.
American Standard Version (1901)
The land dark as midnight, [The land] of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as midnight.
Bible in Basic English (1941)
A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.
World English Bible (2000)
the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.'"
NET Bible® (New English Translation)
to the land of utter darkness, like the deepest darkness, and the deepest shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”
Referenced Verses
- Job 3:5 : 5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let blackness of the day terrify it.
- Job 34:22 : 22 There is no darkness nor shadow of death where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
- Job 38:17 : 17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the doors of the shadow of death?
- Ps 23:4 : 4 Yes, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
- Ps 44:19 : 19 Though You have severely broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
- Ps 88:12 : 12 Shall your wonders be known in the dark, and your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
- Jer 2:6 : 6 Neither did they say, Where is the LORD who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who 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 one passed through, and where no one lived?
- Jer 13:16 : 16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.
- Luke 16:26 : 26 And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who would pass from here to you cannot; neither can they pass to us who would come from there.
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21 Before I go to the place from which I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
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4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, nor let the light shine upon it.
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10 Therefore snares are all around you, and sudden fear troubles you;
11 Or darkness, that you cannot see; and an abundance of waters covers you.
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22 And they shall look to the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and they shall be driven into darkness.
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19 Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And as for darkness, where is its place,
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16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.
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12 They change the night into day; the light is near because of darkness.
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2 He has led me and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
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20 Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, with no brightness in it?
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22 There is no darkness nor shadow of death where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
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11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
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22 He reveals deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.
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23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was formless and empty; and the heavens, and they had no light.
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5 Indeed, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
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10 Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;
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9 Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it look for light, but have none; nor let it see the breaking of dawn:
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14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at midday as if it were night.
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8 All the bright lights of the sky will I make dark over you, and set darkness upon your land, says the Lord GOD.
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3 For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me dwell in darkness, like those long dead.
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17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, nor has he covered the darkness from my face.
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25 They grope in the dark without light, and He makes them stagger like a drunken man.
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21 And the LORD said to Moses, Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness which may be felt.
22 And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days.
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19 Teach us what we shall say to him, for we cannot arrange our speech because of darkness.
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18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
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8 He has fenced up my way so that I cannot pass, and He has set darkness in my paths.
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2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light; they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them has the light shined.
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10 For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light: the sun will be darkened in its rising, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.
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12 And he made darkness canopies around him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.
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3 When His lamp shone upon my head, and by His light I walked through darkness;
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26 When I looked for good, then evil came to me; and when I waited for light, darkness came.
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29 For you are my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.
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9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night;
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10 She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melts, and the knees strike together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather paleness.
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22 He does not believe that he shall return out of darkness, and he is marked for the sword.
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26 Total darkness is reserved for his treasures; a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with the one who remains in his tent.