Job 10:21

Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

King James Version

In Context

20Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

22A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 14:14For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.

Job 3:13For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

Job 7:9As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.

Job 16:22When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

Psalms 23:4Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

Psalms 88:6Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

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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