Job 10:22
Modern Translations
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.”

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

New American Standard Bible
The land of utter gloom like darkness itself, Of deep shadow without order, And it shines like darkness.”

NASB 1995
The land of utter gloom as darkness itself, Of deep shadow without order, And which shines as the darkness."

NASB 1977
The land of utter gloom as darkness itself, Of deep shadow without order, And which shines as the darkness.”

Amplified Bible
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.”

Christian Standard Bible
It is a land of blackness like the deepest darkness, gloomy and chaotic, where even the light is like the 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."

Contemporary English Version
of darkness and despair, the place of no return.

Good News Translation
a land of darkness, shadows, and confusion, where the light itself is darkness.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
to a dismal land of long shadows and confusion where light is as bright as darkness. I'll never return.' "

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."
Classic Translations
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.

New King James Version
A land as dark as darkness itself, As the shadow of death, without any order, Where even the light is like darkness.’ ”

King James 2000 Bible
A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

New Heart English Bible
the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.'"

World English Bible
the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.'"

American 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.

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.

A Faithful Version
A land of obscurity, as the darkness itself and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness. ' "

Darby Bible Translation
A land of gloom, as darkness itself; of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as thick darkness.

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.

Webster's Bible Translation
A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shades of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Into a land, I say, darke as darknes it selfe, and into the shadow of death, where is none order, but the light is there as darkenesse.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Yea a lande as darke as darknesse it selfe, and into the shadowe of death where is none order, but the light is there as darknesse.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
yee into that darck clowdy londe & deadly shadowe, where as is no ordre, but terrible feare as in the darcknesse.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
A land of obscurity as thick darkness, "" Death-shade—and no order, "" And the shining [is] as thick darkness.”

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

Smith's Literal Translation
A land of darkness, as thick darkness; of the shadow of death, and not orders, and the brightness, as thick darkness.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
A land of misery and darkness, where the shadow of death, and no order, but everlasting horror dwelleth.

Catholic Public Domain Version
a land of misery and darkness, where the shadow of death, and nothing else but everlasting horror, dwells.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Of wasting away as deep darkness and shadows of death, and there are no ranks of generations in it, and there is languishing as deep darkness

Lamsa Bible
A land of loneliness and deep darkness, and of the shadow of death, without any order or time; wearisome like a deep pit.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
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.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
to a land of perpetual darkness, where there is no light, neither can any one see the life of mortals.
















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