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._ A land of darkness, as darkness itself. The ideas of order and light, disorder and darkness, harmonize (Genesis 1:2). Three Hebrew words are used for darkness in Job 10:21: (1) in Job 10:21 the common word "darkness" х_ CHOSHEK_ (H2822)]; (2) in Job 10:22 'a land of gloom' х_ `EEPAATAAH_ (H5890)], from a Hebrew root х_ `UWP_ (H5774)], to cover up; (3) 'as da

14-22 Job did not deny that as a sinner he deserved his sufferings; but he thought that justice was executed upon him with peculiar rigour. His gloom, unbelief, and hard thoughts of God, were as much to be ascribed to Satan's inward temptations, and his anguish of soul, under the sense of God's displeasure, as to his outward trials, and remaining depravity. Our Creator, become in Christ our Redeemer also, will not destroy the work of his hands in any humble believer; but will renew him unto holiness, that he may enjoy eternal life. If anguish on earth renders the grave a desirable refuge, what will be their condition who are condemned to the blackness of darkness for ever? Let every sinner seek deliverance from that dreadful state, and every believer be thankful to Jesus, who delivereth from the wrath to come....

Verse Job 10:22. WHERE _THE LIGHT_ IS _AS DARKNESS._] A palpable obscure: it is space and place, and has only such light or capability of distinction as renders "darkness visible." The following words of _Sophocles_ convey the same idea: Ιω σκοτος εμοι φαος; "Thou darkness be my light." It is, as the _Vulgate_ expresses it, _Terra_ _tenebrosa, et operta mortis caligine: Terra miseriae et_ _tenebrarum, ubi umbra mortis, et nullus ordo, sed sempiternus_ _horror inhabitat_: "A murky land, covered with the thick darkness of death: a land of wretchedness and obscurities, where is the shadow of death, and no order, but sempiternal horror dwells everywhere." Or, as _Coverdale_ expresses this last clause, _Wheras_ _is no ordre but terrible feare as in the darknesse_. A _duration_ not characterized or measured by any of the a...

A LAND OF DARKNESS - The word used here (עיפה _‛__êyphâh_) is different from that rendered “darkness” השׁך _chôshek_ in the previous verse. That is the common word to denote darkness; this seldom occurs. It is derived from עוּף _‛__ûph_, to fly; and then to cover as with wings; and hence, the noun means that which is shaded or dark; Amos 4:13; compare Job 17:13; Isaiah 8:22; Isaiah 9:1. AS DARKNESS ITSELF - This is still another word אפל 'ôp

EXPOSITION JOB 10:1 Having answered Bildad, Job proceeds to pour out the bitterness of his soul in a pathetic complaint, which he addresses directly to God. There is not much that is novel in the long expostulation, which mainly goes over ground covered in Job 3:1; Job 6:1; Job 7:1; but some new grounds are alleged as pleas for mercy, if not for justice. These are (1) that he is God's gesture, and in the past (at any rate) has been the object of his care (Job 7:3, J

A LAND OF DARKNESS, AS DARKNESS [ITSELF],.... Not merely like it, but truly so; as gross thick darkness, like that of Egypt, that might be felt; even blackness of darkness, which is as dark as it possibly can be; not only dark, but darkness, extremely dark: [AND] OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH; which is repeated for the illustration and confirmation of it, as having in it all kind of darkness, and that to the greatest degree: WITHOUT ANY ORDER, or "orders" i; or vicissitudes and successions of day and night, summer and winter, heat and cold, wet and dry; or revolutions of sun, moon, and stars, or of the constellations, as Aben Ezra; and whither persons go without any order, either of age, sex, or station; sometimes a young man, sometimes an old man, and the one before the other; sometimes a man, sometimes a woman; sometimes a king, prince, and nobleman, and sometimes a peasant; sometimes a ric...

CHAPTER S 9-10 JOB ANSWERS BILDAD _ 1. The supremacy and power of God (Job 9:1)_ 2. How then can Job meet Him? (Job 9:11) 3. He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked (Job 9:22) 4. Confession of weakness and the need of a daysman (Job 9:25) 5. Murmuring against God (Job 10:1) 6. Welcoming death (Job 10:18) Job 9:1. The final words of Bildad seemed to have had a momentary soothing

Job's tone becomes sharper. He accuses God of having created him only to torment him. What profit is there to God in destroying the work that has cost Him so much pains? (Job 10:3)? Is God short-sighted, so that He sees faults where they do not exist (Job 10:4)? How can He be, when He is eternal (Job 10:5)? Yet He inquires after Job's sin, torturing to make him confess (Job 10:6 f.). Job reminds God how He has made him (Job 10:10 f. describes according to the poet's physiology the formation of the embryo; _cf._ Ps

DARKNESS. Hebrew. _'eyphah._ See note on Job 3:6. darkness itself. Hebrew. _'ophel._ See note on Job 3:6. AS DARKNESS. Hebrew. _'ophel._ See above....

He begs for a little easing of his pain ere he departs to the land of darkness. _are not my days few_ The same argument as ch. Job 7:16. _cease then, and let me alone_ Another reading is, _let him cease then_, &c. In the last case the speaker turns away from God and speaks of Him. In the rest of the chapter, however, Job everywhere addresses God. _take comfort_ The same word as ch. Job 9:27, _brighten up_....