Job 10:22
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to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”
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Will Your wonders be known in the darkness, or Your righteousness in the land of oblivion?
And besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us and you, so that even those who wish cannot cross from here to you, nor can anyone cross from there to us.’
Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You wait for light, but He turns it into deep gloom and thick darkness.
Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
There is no darkness or deep shadow where the workers of iniquity can hide.
May darkness and gloom reclaim it, and a cloud settle over it; may the blackness of the day overwhelm it.
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
They did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and pits, a land of drought and darkness, a land where no one travels and no one lives?’
But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals; You have covered us with deepest darkness.