i. e. A gross and terrible darkness. My sight is very dim and dark, as is usual in case of sore diseases, or excessive grief and weeping, Lamentations 2:11; and especially in the approach of death: compare Psalms 6:7, Psalms 38:10 Lamentations 5:17.
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Job 16:16
16 My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;