Job 10:22
Strong's Lexicon
to a land
אֶ֤רֶץ (’e·reṣ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 776: 1) land, earth 1a) earth 1a1) whole earth (as opposed to a part) 1a2) earth (as opposed to heaven) 1a3) earth (inhabitants) 1b) land 1b1) country, territory 1b2) district, region 1b3) tribal territory 1b4) piece of ground 1b5) land of Canaan, Israel 1b6) inhabitants of land 1b7) Sheol, land without return, (under) world 1b8) city (-state) 1c) ground, surface of the earth 1c1) ground 1c2) soil 1d) (in phrases) 1d1) people of the land 1d2) space or distance of country (in measurements of distance) 1d3) level or plain country 1d4) land of the living 1d5) end(s) of the earth 1e) (almost wholly late in usage) 1e1) lands, countries 1e1a) often in contrast to Canaan

of utter darkness
עֵיפָ֨תָה ׀ (‘ê·p̄ā·ṯāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5890: 1) darkness

of deep shadow
צַ֭לְמָוֶת (ṣal·mā·weṯ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6757: 1) death-shadow, deep shadow, deep darkness, shadow of death 1a) death-shadow 1b) death-shadow, deep shadow, darkness 1c) death-shadow (of distress, extreme danger) (fig) 1d) death-shadow (of place of the dead) (fig)

and disorder
וְלֹ֥א (wə·lō)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: 1) not, no 1a) not (with verb-absolute prohibition) 1b) not (with modifier-negation) 1c) nothing (subst) 1d) without (with particle) 1e) before (of time)

סְדָרִ֗ים (sə·ḏā·rîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5468: 1) arrangement, order

where even the light
וַתֹּ֥פַע (wat·tō·p̄a‘)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3313: 1) to shine, shine forth or out, cause to shine, send out beams 1a) (Hiphil) 1a1) to shine out, shine forth, send out beams 1a2) to cause to shine

is like
כְּמוֹ־ (kə·mōw-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 3644: adv 1) like, as, the like of which conj 2) when, according as, as it were

darkness.”
אֹֽפֶל׃ (’ō·p̄el)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 652: 1) darkness, gloom 2) spiritual unreceptivity, calamity (fig.)

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”

Young's Literal Translation
A land of obscurity as thick darkness, Death-shade—and no order, And the shining [is] as thick darkness.’

Holman Christian Standard Bible
It is a land of blackness like  the deepest darkness, gloomy and  chaotic , where even the light is like the 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 Bible
A land of darkness, as darkness [itself; and] of the shadow of death, without any order, and [where] the light [is] as darkness.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
to the land of deepest night, of utter darkness and disorder, where even the light is like darkness."

New Living Translation
It is a land as dark as midnight, a land of gloom and confusion, where even the light is dark as midnight.'"

English Standard Version
the land of gloom like thick darkness, like deep shadow without any order, where light is 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 Bible
A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

Holman Christian Standard 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.'"

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."

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.

English Revised Version
A land of thick darkness, as darkness itself; a land of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

Young's Literal Translation
A land of obscurity as thick darkness, Death-shade -- and no order, And the shining is as thick darkness.'
















Cross References
Job 3:13
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

Job 10:21
Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

Job 11:1
Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

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 they comfort me.

Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

Job 10:20
Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

Job 10:19
I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

Job 11:2
Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?

Job 11:3
Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
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