Parallel Verses
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."
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.”
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.
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.
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 thither, from whence I shall not turn again. Namely, to that land of darkness and shadow of death: 22 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."
Cross References
Job 3:5
but let it be stained with darkness, and the shadow of death. Let the dim cloud fall upon it, and let it be lapped in with sorrow.
Job 34:22
There is no darkness, nor thick shadow, that can hide the wicked doers from him.
Job 38:17
Have the gates of death been open unto thee, or hast thou seen the door of everlasting treasure?
Psalm 23:4
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me: thy rod and thy staff comfort me.
Psalm 44:19
no, not when thou hast smitten us into the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death
Psalm 88:12
Shall thy wondrous works be known in the dark? Or thy righteousness in the land where all things are forgotten?
Jeremiah 2:6
They thought not in their hearts, 'Where have we left the LORD, that brought us out of the land of Egypt? That led us through the wilderness; through a desert and rough land; through a dry and deadly land; yea a land that no man had gone through, and wherein no man had dwelt?'
Jeremiah 13:16
Honour the LORD your God herein, or he take his light from you, and before your feet stumble in darkness at the hill: lest when ye look for the light, he turn it into the shadow and darkness of death.
Luke 16:26
Beyond all this, between you and us there is a great space set, so that they which would go from hence to you, cannot: neither may come from thence to us.'