Job 10:21
before I go—never to return— to a land of darkness and gloom,
Berean Standard Bible
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 my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort,
22to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”
Cross References
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.
Job 3:13For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest
Job 7:9As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up.
Job 16:22For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.
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.
Psalms 88:6You have laid me in the lowest Pit, in the darkest of the depths.
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 →