5Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
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Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; …
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.
Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)Long was Job’s heart hot within him; and, while he was musing, the fire burned, and the more for being stifled and suppressed. At length he spoke with his tongue, but not such a good word as David spoke after a long pause: Lord, make me to know my end , Ps. 39:3 , 4 . Seven days the prophet Ezekiel sat down astonished with the captives, and then (probably on the sabbath day) the word of the Lord c…
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