KJV King James Version
Before I go [whence] I shall not return, [even] to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Job 10:21
Before I go [whence] I shall not return, [even] to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
before I go—never to return—to a land of darkness and gloom,
WEB World English Bible
before I go where I shall not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
ASV American Standard Version
Before I go whence I shall not return, Even to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Before I go, and return not, Unto a land of darkness and death-shade,
Surrounding context — Job 10
18 Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
19 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
20 [Are] not my days few? cease [then, and] let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
21 Before I go [whence] I shall not return, [even] to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
22 A land of darkness, as darkness [itself; and] of the shadow of death, without any order, and [where] the light [is] as darkness.
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Job 3:5Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.Job 16:22When a few years are come, then I shall go the way [whence] I shall not return.2 Samuel 12:23But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.Psalm 23:4Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou [art] with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.Job 7:8-10The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no [more]: thine eyes [are] upon me, and I [am] not.Job 14:10-14But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where [is] he?Job 3:13For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,2 Samuel 14:14For we must needs die, and [are] as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect [any] person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.Psalm 88:11-12Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? [or] thy faithfulness in destruction?Psalm 88:6Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.Isaiah 38:11I said, I shall not see the LORD, [even] the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.Jeremiah 2:6Neither said they, Where [is] the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?
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