Job 10:21
Before I go, and do not return, || To a land of darkness and death-shade,
Literal Standard 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
20Are my days not few? Cease then, and put from me, || And I brighten up a little,
Cross References
2 Samuel 14:14for we surely die, and [are] as water which is running down to the earth, which is not gathered, and God does not accept a person, and has devised plans in that the outcast is not outcast by Him.
Job 3:13For now, I have lain down, and am quiet, I have slept—then there is rest to me,
Job 7:9A cloud has been consumed, and it goes, || So he who is going down to Sheol does not come up.
Job 16:22When a few years come, || Then I go [on] the path of no return.”
Psalms 23:4Also—when I walk in a valley of death-shade, || I fear no evil, for You [are] with me, || Your rod and Your staff—they comfort me.
Psalms 88:6You have put me in the lowest pit, || In dark places, in 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 →