Job 10:22 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²² the land of gloom and chaos, where light is like darkness.’ ”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²² 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

²² 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)

²² 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

²² a land whose light is like gloom, utter darkness and confusion, such that light shines like gloom.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²² 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

²² A land of misery and darkness, where the shadow of death, and no order, but everlasting horror dwelleth.

Job 10:22 Cross References

Job 10:21

before I go, never to return, to the land of gloom and deep darkness,

Job 11:1

Then Zophar the Naamathite answered:

Job 17:13

If I look for Sheol as my house, if I spread my couch in darkness,

Job 3:13

Now I would be lying down and quiet; I would be asleep; then I would be at rest

Job 3:5

Let gloom and deep darkness claim it. Let clouds settle upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

Job 34:22

There is no gloom or deep darkness where evildoers may hide themselves.

Job 38:17

Have the gates of death been revealed to you, or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?

Psalm 23:4

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.

Psalm 44:19

yet you have broken us in the haunt of jackals and covered us with deep darkness.

Psalm 88:12

Are your wonders known in the darkness or your saving help in the land of forgetfulness?

Psalm 88:13

But I, O Lord, cry out to you; in the morning my prayer comes before you.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

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.

Jeremiah 13:16

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.

Jeremiah 2:6

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?”

Luke 16:26

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.’