Job 10:22 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²²A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

Job 10:22 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 88:12
Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
Job 38:17
Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?
Job 34:22
There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
Job 3:5
Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
Psalms 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 they comfort me.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 14-22)

Here we have, I. Job’s passionate complaints. On this harsh and unpleasant string he harps much, in which, though he cannot be justified, he may be excused. He complained not for nothing, as the murmuring Israelites, but had cause to complain. If we think it looks ill in him, let it be a warning to us to keep our temper better. 1. He complains of the strictness of God’s judgment and the rigour of…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 22)

22. The ideas of order and light, disorder and darkness, harmonize (Ge 1:2). Three Hebrew words are used for darkness; in Job 10:21 (1) the common word “darkness”; here (2) “a land of gloom” (from a Hebrew root, “to cover up”); (3) as “thick darkness” or blackness (from a root, expressing sunset). “Where the light thereof is like blackness.” Its only sunshine is thick darkness. A bold figure of po…