Job 10:22
20 Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort,
21 before I go—never to return— to a land of darkness and gloom,
to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”
- KJV
- A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
- WEB
- the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.’”
- ASV
- The land dark as midnight, [The land] of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as midnight.
- DARBY
- A land of gloom, as darkness itself; of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as thick darkness.
- BLB
- a land of obscurity like thick darkness of the shadow of death, and no order, and it shines like deep darkness.”
- ÅB
- et land så mørkt som den sorteste natt, hvor dødsskygge og forvirring råder, og hvor lyset er som den sorteste natt!
[^1]: det som oppregnes JBS 10, 14 fg. - OTB
- Landet av fullstendig mørke, som selve mørket,
Av dyp skygge uten orden,
Hvor selv lys er som mørke.» - B1930
- et land så mørkt som den sorteste natt, hvor dødsskygge og forvirring råder, og hvor lyset er som den sorteste natt!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 88:12
Will Your wonders be known in the darkness, or Your righteousness in the land of oblivion?
Read in contextJeremiah 13:16
Give 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.
Read in contextJob 3:5
May darkness and gloom reclaim it, and a cloud settle over it; may the blackness of the day overwhelm it.
Read in contextPsalms 44:19
But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals; You have covered us with deepest darkness.
Read in contextJob 38:17
Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
Read in contextPsalms 23:4
Even 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.
Read in contextLuke 16:26
And 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.’
Read in contextJob 34:22
There is no darkness or deep shadow where the workers of iniquity can hide.
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