Job 10:21
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,
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.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- before I go—never to return— to a land of darkness and gloom,
- KJV
- Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
- WEB
- before I go where I will not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
- ASV
- Before I go whence I shall not return, [Even] to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
- DARBY
- Before I go, and never to return, to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
- BLB
- before I go—and I shall not return—to the land of darkness and the shadow of death,
- ÅB
- før jeg går bort for ikke å vende tilbake, bort til mørkets og dødsskyggens land,
- OTB
- Før jeg går—og jeg skal ikke vende tilbake—
Til mørkets og dyp skygge, - B1930
- før jeg går bort for ikke å vende tilbake, bort til mørkets og dødsskyggens land,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 3:5
Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
Read in contextJob 16:22
When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
Read in context2 Samuel 12:23
But 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.
Read in contextJob 7:8–10
The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.
Read in context2 Samuel 14:14
For 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.
Read in contextPsalms 23:4
Yea, 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.
Read in contextJob 14:10–14
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
Read in contextPsalms 88:11–12
Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?
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