“A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.”
Job reflects that the land to which he goes is like darkness deep as shadow, a land of gloom and deep shadow where light is like darkness, suggesting that death is characterized by obscurity and confusion. The piling up of images of darkness emphasizes the incomprehensibility and bleakness of the underworld. Yet even such bleakness seems preferable to the light of divine judgment.
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