Man puts an end to darkness,
And searches every recess
For ore in the darkness and the shadow of death.

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Man puts an end to darkness [by bringing in a light],
And to the farthest bounds he searches out
The rock buried in gloom and deep shadow.

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Mortals put an end to the darkness;(A)
    they search out the farthest recesses
    for ore in the blackest darkness.(B)

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He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.

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22 A land as dark as darkness itself,
As the shadow of death, without any order,
Where even the light is like darkness.’ ”

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22 
The [sunless] land of utter gloom as darkness itself,
[The land] of the shadow of death, without order,
And [where] it shines as [thick] darkness.”

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22 to the land of deepest night,
    of utter darkness(A) and disorder,
    where even the light is like darkness.”(B)

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

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16 My face is [a]flushed from weeping,
And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

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Footnotes

  1. Job 16:16 Lit. red

16 
“My face is red and swollen with weeping,
And on my eyelids is the shadow of death [my eyes are dimmed],

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16 My face is red with weeping,(A)
    dark shadows ring my eyes;(B)

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16 My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of (A)the shadow of death,
(B)I will fear no evil;
(C)For You are with me;
Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.

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Even though I walk through the [sunless] [a]valley of the shadow of death,
I fear no evil, for You are with me;
Your rod [to protect] and Your staff [to guide], they comfort and console me.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 23:4 Or valley of deep darkness.

Even though I walk
    through the darkest valley,[a](A)
I will fear no evil,(B)
    for you are with me;(C)
your rod and your staff,
    they comfort me.

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  1. Psalm 23:4 Or the valley of the shadow of death

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

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19 But You have severely broken us in (A)the place of jackals,
And covered us (B)with the shadow of death.

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19 
Yet You have [distressingly] crushed us in the place of jackals
And covered us with [the deep darkness of] the shadow of death.

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19 But you crushed(A) us and made us a haunt for jackals;(B)
    you covered us over with deep darkness.(C)

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19 Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

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10 Those who (A)sat in darkness and in the shadow of death,
(B)Bound[a] in affliction and irons—

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 107:10 Prisoners

10 
Some dwelt in darkness and in the deep (deathly) darkness,
Prisoners [bound] in misery and chains,(A)

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10 Some sat in darkness,(A) in utter darkness,
    prisoners suffering(B) in iron chains,(C)

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10 Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;

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16 (A)The people who sat in darkness have seen a great light,
And upon those who sat in the region and shadow of death
Light has dawned.”

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16 
The people who were sitting (living) in [spiritual] darkness have seen a great Light,
And for those who were sitting (living) in the land and shadow of [spiritual and moral] death,
Upon them a Light has dawned.”(A)

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16 the people living in darkness
    have seen a great light;
on those living in the land of the shadow of death
    a light has dawned.”[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 4:16 Isaiah 9:1,2

16 The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.

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