“But now he is dead, why should I fast? Am I able to bring him back again? I am going to him, but he does not return to me.”
Job 10:21 - The Scriptures 2009 Before I go, and not return, to the land of darkness and the shadow of death, Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Before I go whence I shall not return, Even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death, American Standard Version (1901) Before I go whence I shall not return, Even to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death; Common English Bible before I go and don’t return to a land of deepest darkness, Catholic Public Domain Version before I depart and return no more to a land that is dark and covered with the fog of death, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Before I go, and return no more: to a land that is dark and covered with the mist of death: |
“But now he is dead, why should I fast? Am I able to bring him back again? I am going to him, but he does not return to me.”
“For we shall certainly die and become like water spilled on the ground, which is not gathered up again. Yet Elohim does not take away a life, but shall devise ways, so that His outcast ones are not cast out from Him.
a land as dark as darkness itself, as the shadow of death, without any order, whose light is as darkness.”
For now I would have been lying in peace. I would have slept – then I would have been at rest,
Let darkness and the shadow of death buy it back, let a cloud dwell on it, let all that blackens the day frighten it.
There is no darkness nor shadow of death where the workers of wickedness hide themselves.
Were the gates of death revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
When I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil. For You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
Look away from me, That I might brighten up, Before I go away and am no more.
Man, who is rich, Yet does not understand, Shall be like the beasts, They shall perish.
But I, unto You I have cried, O יהוה, And in the morning my prayer comes before You.
But if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all. But let him remember the days of darkness, for they are many. All that is coming is futility.
All that your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom in She’ol where you are going.
I said, “I shall not see Yah – Yah in the land of the living! I shall no longer look on man with the inhabitants of the world!
“And did not they say, ‘Where is יהוה, who brought us up out of the land of Mitsrayim, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and pits, through a land of drought and the shadow of death, a land that no one passed through and where no one dwelt?’