Parallel Verses
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.
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 of no return, to the land of darkness and the shadow of death,
22
Of deep shadow without order,
And which shines as the darkness.”
Cross References
Job 3:5
Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it once more. May a cloud settle over it and may blackness overwhelm its light.
Job 34:22
There is no darkness or deep shadow where troublemakers can hide.
Job 38:17
Have the gates of death been shown to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
Psalm 23:4
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for you are with me. Your rod and your staff they comfort me.
Psalm 44:19
You crushed us in a place for jackals and covered us with the shadow of death.
Psalm 88:12
Will anyone know about your miracles in that dark place or about your righteousness (mercy) in the place of destruction?
Jeremiah 2:6
They did not ask: 'Where is Jehovah who brought us from Egypt? He led us through the desert, through a wasteland and its pits, a land of drought and the shadow of death. No one lives there or travels there.'
Jeremiah 13:16
Give glory to Jehovah your God before he brings darkness and before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You hope for light. He makes it into deep darkness and turns it into gloom.
Luke 16:26
There is a deep pit lying between us, so that those who want to cross over from here to you cannot do so. And no one can cross over to us from where you are.