Job 10:21
Before I go, and never to return, to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
Darby Translation
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 revive a little,
Cross References
2 Samuel 14:14For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; and God has not taken away his life, but devises means that the banished one be not expelled from him.
Job 3:13For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
Job 7:9The cloud consumeth and vanisheth away; so he that goeth down to Sheol shall not come up.
Job 16:22For years [few] in number shall pass, and I shall go the way [whence] I shall not return.
Psalms 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.
Psalms 88:6Thou hast 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 →