Job 10:21
Before I go, and return no more, to a land that is dark and covered with the mist of death:
Douay-Rheims 1899
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
Cross References
2 Samuel 14:14We all die, and like waters that return no more, we fall down into the earth: neither will God have a soul to perish, but recalleth, meaning that he that is cast off should not altogether perish.
Job 3:13For now I should have been asleep and still, and should have rest in my sleep.
Job 7:9As a cloud is consumed, and passeth away: so he that shall go down to hell shall not come up.
Job 16:22And O that a man might so be judged with God, as the son of man is judged with his companion!
Psalms 23:4For though I should walk in the midst of the shadow of death, I will fear no evils, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff, they have comforted me.
Psalms 88:6free among the dead. Like the slain sleeping in the sepulchres, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cast off from thy hand.
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 →