Job 10:21
before I go to the place from which I will never return, where it is always gloomy and very dark [DOU],
Translation for Translators
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; we are like [SIM] water that cannot be picked up after it is spilled on the ground. But God does not just cause us to die; he creates ways to bring us back when we become separated from him.
Job 3:13If I had died at the time when I was born, I would be asleep, resting peacefully i in the place where the dead people are.
Job 7:9Like [SIM] clouds ◄disperse/break up► and then disappear, people die and descend to the place where dead people are, and they do not return;
Job 16:22I say this because within a few years I will die; I will walk along the road to the grave from which I will never return.”
Psalms 23:4Even when I am walking through very dangerous dark ravines where I might be killed, I will not be afraid of anything because you are with me. You protect me like a shepherd protects his sheep. He uses his club and his walking stick to protect them from being attacked by wild animals.
Psalms 88:6It is as though you have thrown me into a deep, dark pit, into a place where they throw corpses.
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 →