Job 10:22 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 the land of gloom and chaos, where light is like darkness.’ ” More versionsKing 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. |
Now I would be lying down and quiet; I would be asleep; then I would be at rest
Let gloom and deep darkness claim it. Let clouds settle upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
Have the gates of death been revealed to you, or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?
Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
yet you have broken us in the haunt of jackals and covered us with deep darkness.
Are your wonders known in the darkness or your saving help in the land of forgetfulness?
But I, O Lord, cry out to you; in the morning my prayer comes before you.
Whatever your hand finds to do, do with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.
Give glory to the Lord your God before he brings darkness and before your feet stumble on the mountains at twilight; while you look for light, he turns it into gloom and makes it deep darkness.
They did not say, “Where is the Lord, who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us in the wilderness, in a land of deserts and pits, in a land of drought and deep darkness, in a land that no one passes through, where no one lives?”
Besides all this, between you and us a great chasm has been fixed, so that those who might want to pass from here to you cannot do so, and no one can cross from there to us.’