the land of gloom like thick darkness, like deep shadow without any order, where light is as thick darkness.”
Here we have, I. Job's passionate complaints. On this harsh and unpleasant string he harps much, in which, though he cannot be justified, he may be excused. He complained not for nothing, as the murmuring Israelites, but had cause to complain. If we think it looks ill in him, let it be a warning to us to keep our temper better. 1.
Commenting on Job 10:14-22
The ideas of order and light, disorder and darkness, harmonize (Gen 1:2). Three Hebrew words are used for darkness; in Job 10:21 (1) the common word "darkness"; here (2) "a land of gloom" (from a Hebrew root, "to cover up"); (3) as "thick darkness" or blackness (from a root, expressing sunset). "Where the light thereof is like blackness." Its only sunshine is thick darkness. A bold figure of poetry.
A land of darkness, as darkness [itself; and] of the shadow of death, without any order, and [where] the light [is] as darkness. (u) No distinction between light and darkness but where there is very darkness itself.