Job 10:21

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“before I go—never to return— to a land of darkness and gloom,”

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BSBPD

“before I go—never to return— to a land of darkness and gloom,”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Before I go whence I shall not return, Evento the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Before I go, and return not, Unto a land of darkness and death-shade,”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Job 10:21 — 18 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 2 Samuel 12:23But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”
  2. 2 Samuel 14:14For surely we will die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life; but He devises ways that the banished one may not be cast out from Him.
  3. Job 3:5May darkness and gloom reclaim it, and a cloud settle over it; may the blackness of the day overwhelm it.
  4. Job 3:13For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest
  5. Job 7:8The eye that beholds me will no longer see me. You will look for me, but I will be no more.
  6. Job 7:9As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up.
  7. Job 14:10But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?
  8. Job 16:22For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.
  9. Job 17:13If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
  10. Psalms 23:4Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
  11. Psalms 49:20A man who has riches without understanding is like the beasts that perish.
  12. Psalms 88:6You have laid me in the lowest Pit, in the darkest of the depths.
  13. Psalms 88:11Can Your loving devotion be proclaimed in the grave, Your faithfulness in Abaddon?
  14. Psalms 88:13But to You, O LORD, I cry for help; in the morning my prayer comes before You.
  15. Ecclesiastes 9:10Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.
  16. Ecclesiastes 11:8So if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all. But let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. Everything to come is futile.
  17. Isaiah 38:11I said, “I will never again see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living; I will no longer look on mankind with those who dwell in this world.
  18. Jeremiah 2:6They did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and pits, a land of drought and darkness, a land where no one travels and no one lives?’

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