Before I go, and not return, to the land of darkness and the shadow of death,
Job 10:22 - The Scriptures 2009 a land as dark as darkness itself, as the shadow of death, without any order, whose light is as darkness.” Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 A land of darkness, as darkness itself; And of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as darkness. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The land of sunless gloom as intense darkness, [the land] of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light 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. Common English Bible a land whose light is like gloom, utter darkness and confusion, such that light shines like gloom. Catholic Public Domain Version a land of misery and darkness, where the shadow of death, and nothing else but everlasting horror, dwells. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version A land of misery and darkness, where the shadow of death, and no order, but everlasting horror dwelleth. |
Before I go, and not return, to the land of darkness and the shadow of death,
For now I would have been lying in peace. I would have slept – then I would have been at rest,
Let darkness and the shadow of death buy it back, let a cloud dwell on it, let all that blackens the day frighten it.
There is no darkness nor shadow of death where the workers of wickedness hide themselves.
Were the gates of death revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
When I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil. For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
Yet You have crushed us in the place of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death.
Are Your wonders known in the dark? And Your righteousness in the land of no remembrance?
But I, unto You I have cried, O יהוה, And in the morning my prayer comes before You.
All that your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom in She’ol where you are going.
Give esteem to יהוה your Elohim before He brings darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you are looking for light. He turns it into the shadow of death, makes it gross darkness.
“And did not they say, ‘Where is יהוה, who brought us up out of the land of Mitsrayim, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and pits, through a land of drought and the shadow of death, a land that no one passed through and where no one dwelt?’
And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been set, so that those who wish to pass from here to you are unable, nor do those from there pass to us.’