Job 10:21
Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
Revised Version 1895
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 not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
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 take away life, but deviseth means, that he that is banished be not an outcast from him.
Job 3:13For now should I have lain down 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 Sheol shall come up no more.
Job 16:22For when a few years are come, 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 dark places, 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 →