Before I go whence I shall not return, Even to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
Job 16:22 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 For when a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 When a few years are come, Then I shall go the way whence I shall not return. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For when a few years are come, I shall go the way from which I shall not return. American Standard Version (1901) For when a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return. Common English Bible A number of years will surely pass, and then I’ll walk a path that I won’t return. Catholic Public Domain Version And I wish that a man might be so judged before God, just as the son of man is judged with his assistant! Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And O that a man might so be judged with God, as the son of man is judged with his companion! |
Before I go whence I shall not return, Even to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
But man dieth, and wasteth away: Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
If a man die, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare would I wait, Till my release should come.
Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with thee, And thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
That he would maintain the right of a man with God, And of a son of man with his neighbour!
For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest:
yea, they shall be afraid of that which is high, and terrors shall be in the way; and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and the caper-berry shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets: