Job 10:21

Before I go, and return not, to the land of darkness and the shadow of death,

Leeser Tanakh

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

20Lo! my days are but few: cease, then, withdraw from me [thy hand], that I may recover my cheerfulness a little.

22A land of utter gloom, as of the darkness of the shadow of death, without any order, and the light of which is like utter gloom.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 14:14For we must needs die, and are as water which is spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; and yet doth God not take away life; and he deviseth thoughts, so that the banished one may not remain banished from him.

Job 3:13For now should I be lying still and be quiet; I should sleep: then would I be at rest,

Job 7:9As the cloud vanisheth and passeth away: so will he that goeth down to the nether world not come up again.

Job 16:22For when the numbered years are passed, then must I travel a path whence I cannot return.

Psalms 23:4Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will not fear evil; for thou art with me: thy rod and thy staff—they indeed comfort me.

Psalms 88:6(88:7) Thou hast laid me in the pit of the lower world, in darkness, in 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 →

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