Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

A land of darkness, as thick darkness; of the shadow of death, and not orders, and the brightness, as thick darkness.

New American Standard Bible

The land of utter gloom as darkness itself,
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

It is a land of blackness like the deepest darkness,
gloomy and chaotic,
where even the light is like the darkness.”

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.”

Bible in Basic English

A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.

Darby Translation

A land of gloom, as darkness itself; of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is 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.'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
A land
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

עיפה 
`eyphah 
Usage: 2

אפל 
'ophel 
Usage: 9

itself and of the shadow of death
צלמות 
Tsalmaveth 
Usage: 18

סדר 
Ceder 
Usage: 1

and where the light
יפע 
Yapha` 
Usage: 8

References

Easton

Morish

Smith

Watsons

Context Readings

Job Continues His Response To Bildad

21 Before I shall go and turn back to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; 22 A land of darkness, as thick darkness; of the shadow of death, and not orders, and the brightness, as thick darkness.



Cross References

Job 3:5

Darkness shall pollute it, and the shadow of death; a cloud shall dwell upon it; the obscurations of day shall terrify it

Job 34:22

Not darkness and not the shadow of death for those working iniquity to hide there.

Job 38:17

Were the gates of death uncovered to thee? and shalt thou see the gates of the shadow of death?

Psalm 23:4

Also if I shall go into the valley of the shadow of death, I shall not be afraid of evil, for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they will comfort me.

Psalm 44:19

For thou didst crush us in the place of jackals, and thou wilt cover over us with the shadow of death.

Psalm 88:12

Shall thy wonder be known in darkness, and thy justice in a land of oblivion?

Jeremiah 2:6

And they said not, Where is Jehovah bringing us up out of the land of Egypt, causing us to go through the desert into a sterile land and a pit, through a land of drought and the shadow of death, through a land not a man passed through it, and not a man dwelt there?

Jeremiah 13:16

Ye shall give glory to Jehovah your God, before he shall darken, and before your feet shall strike upon the mountains of darkness, and ye waited for light, and he set it for the shadow of death, he will place for gloom.

Luke 16:26

And besides all these, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed: so that they wishing to pass through thence to you could not; neither could they cross over from thence to us.

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