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
In Job 3:5, Job himself used 'shadow of death' and darkness to curse his birth — same language for his despair.
In Job 38:17, God questions Job about the 'gates of death' and 'shadow of death' — the realm Job described.
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 longs for the grave as a home in darkness, directly echoing the land of gloom in 10:22.
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 says the wicked will not escape darkness — similar imagery of the dark realm in 10:22, though from Eliphaz's perspective.
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 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.
In Luke 1:79, the 'shadow of death' is again linked to Christ bringing light, contrasting Job's land of darkness.
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 echoes Job's 'land of darkness' with 'dark' and 'land of forgetfulness' — both lament death's oblivion.
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.