Job 10:22
What does Job 10:22 mean?
A plain-English look at Job 10:22 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000The land dark as midnight, The landof the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as midnight.
KJV
King James Version · 1611A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901The land dark as midnight, The landof the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as midnight.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862A land of obscurity as thick darkness, Death-shade--and no order, And the shining <FI>is<Fi> as thick darkness.'
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752A land of misery and darkness, where the shadow of death, and no order, but everlasting horror dwelleth.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890A land of gloom, as darkness itself; of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as thick darkness.
Context
v.21Before I go whence I shall not return, Evento the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
v.22This passage
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 23:4
Yea, 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.
- Luke 16:26
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.
- Job 38:17
Have the gates of death been revealed unto thee? Or hast thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?
- Psalms 44:19
That thou hast sore broken us in the place of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death.
- Jeremiah 2:6
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?
- Job 34:22
There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
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