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Job 10:21

before I depart and return no more to a land that is dark and covered with the fog of death,

Catholic Public Domain 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

20Will not my few days be completed soon? Release me, therefore, so that I may lament my sorrows a little,

22a land of misery and darkness, where the shadow of death, and nothing else but everlasting horror, dwells.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 14:14We are all dying, and we are all like waters that flow into the ground and do not return. God does not will to lose a soul. Instead, he renews his efforts, thinking that what has been rejected might not perish altogether.

Job 3:13For by now, I should have been sleeping silently, and taking rest in my sleep

Job 7:9Just as a cloud is consumed and passes away, so he who descends to hell will not ascend.

Job 16:22And I wish that a man might be so judged before God, just as the son of man is judged with his assistant!

Psalms 23:4The innocent of hands and the clean of heart, who has not received his soul in vain, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbor.

Psalms 88:6The heavens will confess your miracles, Lord, and also your truth, in the Church of the saints.

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 →

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