Job 10:21

In 11 translations

BSB

before I go—never to return— to a land of darkness and gloom,

KJV

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

WEB

before I go where I will not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

ASV

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

LSV

Before I go, and do not return, || To a land of darkness and death-shade,

YLT

Before I go, and return not, Unto a land of darkness and death-shade,

DBY

Before I go, and never to return, — to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

DRC

Before I go, and return no more, to a land that is dark and covered with the mist of death:

GNV

Before I goe and shall not returne, euen to the land of darkenesse and shadow of death:

JPS

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

LXXE

before I go whence I shall not return, to a land of darkness and gloominess;

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Original-language editions

WLC

בְּטֶ֣רֶם אֵ֭לֵךְ וְלֹ֣א אָשׁ֑וּב אֶל־אֶ֖רֶץ חֹ֣שֶׁךְ וְצַלְמָֽוֶת׃

LXX-Br

πρὸ τοῦ με πορευθῆναι ὅθεν οὐκ ἀναστρέψω, εἰς γῆν σκοτεινὴν καὶ γνοφερὰν,

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Cross-references most cited first

• Job 3:5May darkness and gloom reclaim it, and a cloud settle over it; may the blackness of the day overwhelm it.
• 2 Samuel 12:23But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”
• Job 16:22For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.
• Job 7:8–10The eye that beholds me will no longer see me. You will look for me, but I will be no more. As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up. He never returns to his house; his place…
• Psalms 23:4Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
• 2 Samuel 14:14For surely we will die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life; but He devises ways that the banished one may not be cast out from Him.
• Job 14:10–14But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he? As water disappears from the sea and a river becomes parched and dry, so a man lies down and does not rise. Until the heavens are no more, he will…
• Job 3:13For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest
• Psalms 88:11–12Can Your loving devotion be proclaimed in the grave, Your faithfulness in Abaddon? Will Your wonders be known in the darkness, or Your righteousness in the land of oblivion?
• Jeremiah 2:6They did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and pits, a land of drought and darkness, a land where no one travels and no…
• Isaiah 38:11I said, “I will never again see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living; I will no longer look on mankind with those who dwell in this world.
• Psalms 88:6You have laid me in the lowest Pit, in the darkest of the depths.

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