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Job 10:22

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

the shadow of death: Where death projects his shadow, intercepting the light of life. Without any order, having no arrangement, no distinction of inhabitants; the poor and the rich are there, the king and the beggar, their bodies in equal corruption and disgrace.

Where the light is as darkness, a palpable obscure, space and place, with only such a light or capability of distinction, as renders "darkness visible."

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