Job 10:22

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

Cross-references

Job 3:5 Parallel

In Job 3:5, Job himself used 'shadow of death' and darkness to curse his birth — same language for his despair.

Job 38:17 Allusion

In Job 38:17, God questions Job about the 'gates of death' and 'shadow of death' — the realm Job described.

Job 14:12 Parallel

Job 14:12 describes death as a permanent sleep without awakening — the same hopeless end pictured in 10:22's land of gloom.

Job 17:13 Parallel

Job 17:13 longs for the grave as a home in darkness, directly echoing the land of gloom in 10:22.

Job 34:22 Contrast

Job 34:22 asserts that no darkness or shadow of death hides sinners — contrasting Job's view of death as ultimate darkness.

Job 15:30 Parallel

Job 15:30 says the wicked will not escape darkness — similar imagery of the dark realm in 10:22, though from Eliphaz's perspective.

Job 18:18 Parallel

Job 18:18 depicts the wicked driven into utter darkness — the same dark realm Job describes in 10:22, from Bildad's speech.

Psalm 23:4 Contrast

Psalm 23:4 uses 'shadow of death' for a valley where God's presence comforts — opposite to Job's hopeless darkness.

Psalm 107:14 portrays God rescuing from darkness and death — a hopeful reversal of the hopeless gloom in Job 10:22.

In Matthew 4:16, the same 'shadow of death' imagery heralds Christ's light — directly reversing Job's hopeless darkness.

Luke 1:79 Allusion

In Luke 1:79, the 'shadow of death' is again linked to Christ bringing light, contrasting Job's land of darkness.

Psalm 44:19 Parallel

Psalm 44:19 describes being 'covered with the shadow of death' as divine judgment — like Job's lament of death's darkness.

Psalm 88:12 Parallel

Psalm 88:12 echoes Job's 'land of darkness' with 'dark' and 'land of forgetfulness' — both lament death's oblivion.

Amos 5:20 Parallel

Amos 5:20 describes the day of the Lord as darkness without light — similar language to 10:22's land of gloom, but about judgment.