Job 10:21
before I go where I shall not return, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death,
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
In Context
20Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little
Cross References
2 Samuel 14:14For we must die, and are as water split on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again, neither does God take away life, but devises means that he who is banished be not an outcast from him.
Job 3:13For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept. Then I would have been at rest
Job 7:9As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more.
Job 16:22For when a few years are come, I shall go the way where I shall not return.
Psalms 23:4Yea, tho I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou are with me, thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
Psalms 88:6Thou have laid me in the lowest pit, in dark places, in the deeps.
Matthew Henry on Job 10:15-22
14 If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity. 15 If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction; 16 For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou showest thyself marvellous upon me. 17 Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me. 18 Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh… Read the whole commentary →