Job 10:22 — Compare Translations
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English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young
A land of obscurity as thick darkness, Death-shade -- and no order, And the shining [is] as thick darkness.`
English ASV
The land dark as midnight, The land of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as midnight.
English Amplified
The land of sunless gloom as intense darkness, [the land] of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as thick darkness.
English Amplified Classic Bible 1987
The land of sunless gloom as intense darkness, [the land] of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as thick darkness.
English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025
to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”
English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible
It is a land of blackness like the deepest darkness, gloomy and chaotic, where even the light is like the darkness.”
English Darby 1890 : Public Domain
A land of gloom, as darkness itself; of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as thick darkness.
English EASY 2024
I will go to that very dark place where there are only shadows. In that place, it is still dark when the light shines. ” ’
English ERV 2006 - Only For Website
that land of darkest night, of shadows and confusion, where even the light is darkness.'"
English ESV 2016 == The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles
the land of gloom like thick darkness, like deep shadow without any order, where light is as thick darkness."
English GNT (Good News Translation)
a land of darkness, shadows, and confusion, where the light itself is darkness.
English God's Word - GW 1995
to a dismal land of long shadows and confusion where light is as bright as darkness. I'll never return.' "
English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website
[It is] a land of blackness like the deepest darkness, gloomy and chaotic, where even the light is like the darkness.
English KJV 1611
A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
English LSB
The land of utter gloom as the thick darkness itself, Of the shadow of death, without order, And which shines as the thick darkness.”
English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)
a land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as thick darkness.”
English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)
The land of utter gloom as darkness itself, Of deep shadow without order, And which shines as the darkness."
English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website
The black, disordered land where darkness is the only light.
English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)
to the land of utter darkness, like the deepest darkness, and the deepest shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”
English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website
It's the land of darkest night and deep shadow and disorder. There even the light is like darkness.' "
English NIV
to the land of deepest night, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness."
English NKJ 1982
A land as dark as darkness itself, As the shadow of death, without any order, Where even the light is like darkness.’ ”
English NLT
It is a land as dark as midnight, a land of utter gloom where confusion reigns and the light is as dark as midnight.'"
English NRSV 1989 - Only for website
the land of gloom and chaos, where light is like darkness."
English RSV (Revised Standard Version)
the land of gloom and chaos, where light is as darkness.”
English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)
a land as dark as midnight, a land of the shadow of death where only confusion reigns and where the brightest light is dark as midnight.' “
English Tyndale 1537
yea into that dark cloudy land and deadly shadow, where as is no order, but terrible fear as in the darkness.