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Source language
JPS Hebrew-English TANAKH   
ארץ עפתה כמו אפל--צלמות ולא סדרים ותפע כמו-אפל
Hebrew - Transliteration via code library   
ArTS `pth kmv Apl--TSlmvt vlA sdrym vtp` kmv-Apl

Intermediate language
Vulgate (Latin)   
terram miseriae et tenebrarum ubi umbra mortis et nullus ordo et sempiternus horror inhabitans

King James Variants
American King James Version   
A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
King James 2000 (out of print)   
A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
King James Bible (Cambridge, large print)   
A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
Authorized (King James) Version   
a land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
New King James Version   
A land as dark as darkness itself, As the shadow of death, without any order, Where even the light is like darkness.’ ”
21st Century King James Version   
a land of darkness, as darkness itself, and of the shadow of death without any order, and where the light is as darkness.’”

Other translations
American Standard Version   
The land dark as midnight, The land of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as midnight.
Darby Bible Translation   
A land of gloom, as darkness itself; of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as thick darkness.
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)   
A land of misery and darkness, where the shadow of death, and no order, but everlasting horror dwelleth.
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance   
A land of thick darkness, as darkness itself; a land of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
English Standard Version Journaling Bible   
the land of gloom like thick darkness, like deep shadow without any order, where light is as thick darkness.”
God's Word   
to a dismal land of long shadows and confusion where light is as bright as darkness. I'll never return.' "
Holman Christian Standard Bible   
It is a land of blackness like the deepest darkness, gloomy and chaotic, where even the light is like the darkness."
International Standard Version   
It's a gloomy land, like deepest darkness; where there's no order, and where even the brightness is like darkness.'"
NET Bible   
to the land of utter darkness, like the deepest darkness, and the deepest shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness."
New American Standard Bible   
The land of utter gloom as darkness itself, Of deep shadow without order, And which shines as the darkness."
New International Version   
to the land of deepest night, of utter darkness and disorder, where even the light is like darkness."
New Living Translation   
It is a land as dark as midnight, a land of gloom and confusion, where even the light is dark as midnight.'"
Webster's Bible Translation   
A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shades of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
The World English Bible   
the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.'"
EasyEnglish Bible   
I will go to that very dark place where there are only shadows. In that place, it is still dark when the light shines. ” ’
Young‘s Literal Translation   
A land of obscurity as thick darkness, Death-shade -- and no order, And the shining [is] as thick darkness.'
New Life Version   
It is the land of complete darkness and shadow and trouble, where the light is darkness.”
The Voice Bible   
The land of deep, unending night, of blackness and shadowy chaos where the only illumination is more darkness.
Living Bible   
a land as dark as midnight, a land of the shadow of death where only confusion reigns and where the brightest light is dark as midnight.’”
New Catholic Bible   
to the land of deepest night, a land of gloom and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.’ ”
Legacy Standard Bible   
The land of utter gloom as the thick darkness itself, Of the shadow of death, without order, And which shines as the thick darkness.”
Jubilee Bible 2000   
land of darkness, as darkness itself, and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
Christian Standard Bible   
It is a land of blackness like the deepest darkness, gloomy and chaotic, where even the light is like the darkness.”
Amplified Bible © 1954   
The land of sunless gloom as intense darkness, [the land] of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as thick darkness.
New Century Version   
the land of darkest night, from the land of gloom and confusion, where even the light is darkness.”
The Message   
“So why did you have me born? I wish no one had ever laid eyes on me! I wish I’d never lived—a stillborn, buried without ever having breathed. Isn’t it time to call it quits on my life? Can’t you let up, and let me smile just once Before I die and am buried, before I’m nailed into my coffin, sealed in the ground, And banished for good to the land of the dead, blind in the final dark?”
Evangelical Heritage Version ™   
into the land of gloom, as dark as the shadow of death, into the land of chaos, where even light is darkness.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
the land of gloom and chaos, where light is like darkness.”
Good News Translation®   
a land of darkness, shadows, and confusion, where the light itself is darkness.
Wycliffe Bible   
to the land of wretchedness, and of darknesses; where is shadow of death, and none order, but everlasting hideousness dwelleth. (yea, to the land of wretchedness, and of darkness; where there is only the shadow of death, and no order, and everlasting hideousness dwelleth there.)
Contemporary English Version   
of darkness and despair, the place of no return.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
the land of gloom and chaos, where light is as darkness.”
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition   
the land of gloom and chaos, where light is like darkness.’ ”
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition   
the land of gloom and chaos, where light is like darkness.’
Common English Bible © 2011   
a land whose light is like gloom, utter darkness and confusion, such that light shines like gloom.
Amplified Bible © 2015   
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.”
English Standard Version Anglicised   
the land of gloom like thick darkness, like deep shadow without any order, where light is as thick darkness.”
New American Bible (Revised Edition)   
The dark, disordered land where darkness is the only light.
New American Standard Bible   
The land of utter gloom like darkness itself, Of deep shadow without order, And it shines like darkness.”
The Expanded Bible   
the land of ·darkest night [or dimness and blackness], from the land of gloom and ·confusion [chaos], where even the light is darkness.”
Tree of Life Version   
the land of utter darkness, like the deepest darkness and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”
Revised Standard Version   
the land of gloom and chaos, where light is as darkness.”
New International Reader's Version   
It’s the land of darkest night and total darkness and disorder. There even the light is like darkness.’ ”
BRG Bible   
A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
Complete Jewish Bible   
a land of gloom like darkness itself, of dense darkness and utter disorder, where even the light is dark.’”
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised   
the land of gloom and chaos, where light is like darkness.’
Orthodox Jewish Bible   
An eretz of darkness, like darkness itself; and of tzalmavet, no sedarim (order), where the light is like darkness.
Names of God Bible   
to a dismal land of long shadows and confusion where light is as bright as darkness. I’ll never return.’”
Modern English Version   
a land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as thick darkness.”
Easy-to-Read Version   
that land of darkest night, of shadows and confusion, where even the light is darkness.’”
International Children’s Bible   
It is the land of darkest night. It is the land of gloom and confusion. Even the light is darkness there.”
Lexham English Bible   
to the land of darkness, like the darkness of a deep shadow and chaos, so that it shines forth like darkness.’”
New International Version - UK   
to the land of deepest night, of utter darkness and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.’