Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.
New American Standard Bible
Of deep shadow without order,
And which shines as the darkness.”
King James Version
A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
Holman Bible
gloomy and chaotic,
where even the light is like
International Standard Version
It's a gloomy land, like deepest darkness; where there's no order, and where even the brightness is like darkness.'"
A Conservative Version
the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as midnight.
American Standard Version
The land dark as midnight, The land of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as midnight.
Amplified
The [sunless] land of utter gloom as darkness itself,
[The land] of the shadow of death, without order,
And [where] it shines as [thick] darkness.”
Darby Translation
A land of gloom, as darkness itself; of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as thick darkness.
Julia Smith Translation
A land of darkness, as thick darkness; of the shadow of death, and not orders, and the brightness, as thick darkness.
King James 2000
A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
Lexham Expanded Bible
to [the] land of darkness, like [the] darkness of a deep shadow and {chaos}, so that it shines forth like darkness.'"
Modern King James verseion
a land of obscurity, the darkness of the shadow of death, without any order, and the shining is as darkness.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
yea, into a land as dark as darkness itself, and into the shadow of death where is none order; but light there is as darkness."
NET Bible
to the land of utter darkness, like the deepest darkness, and the deepest shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness."
New Heart English Bible
the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.'"
The Emphasized Bible
A land of obscurity, like thick darkness, of death-shade and disorder, and which shineth like thick darkness.
Webster
A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shades of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
World English Bible
the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.'"
Youngs Literal Translation
A land of obscurity as thick darkness, Death-shade -- and no order, And the shining is as thick darkness.'
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 10:22
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job Continues His Response To Bildad
21 Before I go to the place from which I will not come back, to the land where all is dark and black, 22 A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.
Cross References
Job 3:5
Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it.
Job 34:22
There is no dark place, and no thick cloud, in which the workers of evil may take cover.
Job 38:17
Have the doors of death been open to you, or have the door-keepers of the dark ever seen you?
Psalm 44:19
Though you have let us be crushed in the place of jackals, though we are covered with darkest shade.
Psalm 88:12
May there be knowledge of your wonders in the dark? or of your righteousness where memory is dead?
Jeremiah 2:6
And they never said, Where is the Lord, who took us up out of the land of Egypt; who was our guide through the waste of sand, through an unplanted land full of deep holes, through a dry land of deep shade, which no one went through and where no man was living?
Jeremiah 13:16
Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.
Luke 16:26
And in addition, there is a deep division fixed between us and you, so that those who might go from here to you are not able to do so, and no one may come from you to us.