Job 10:22
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.””
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“to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.”
King James Version · Public Domain“The land dark as midnight, The landof the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as midnight.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“A land of obscurity as thick darkness, Death-shade--and no order, And the shining <FI>is<Fi> as thick darkness.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 10:22 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 3:5May darkness and gloom reclaim it, and a cloud settle over it; may the blackness of the day overwhelm it.
- Job 17:13If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
- Job 34:22There is no darkness or deep shadow where the workers of iniquity can hide.
- Job 38:17Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
- Psalms 23:4Even 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.
- Psalms 44:19But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals; You have covered us with deepest darkness.
- Psalms 88:12Will Your wonders be known in the darkness, or Your righteousness in the land of oblivion?
- Psalms 88:13But to You, O LORD, I cry for help; in the morning my prayer comes before You.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.
- Jeremiah 2:6They did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and pits, a land of drought and darkness, a land where no one travels and no one lives?’
- Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You wait for light, but He turns it into deep gloom and thick darkness.
- Luke 16:26And besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us and you, so that even those who wish cannot cross from here to you, nor can anyone cross from there to us.’
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