Job 10:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²¹ before I go, never to return, to the land of gloom and deep darkness,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ Before I go whence I shall not return, Even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death,

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ Before I go whence I shall not return, Even to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

Common English Bible

²¹ before I go and don’t return to a land of deepest darkness,

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ 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

²¹ Before I go, and return no more: to a land that is dark and covered with the mist of death:

Job 10:21 Cross References

2 Samuel 12:23

But now he is dead; why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.”

2 Samuel 14:14

We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up. But God will not take away a life; he will devise plans so as not to keep an outcast banished forever from his presence.

Job 10:22

the land of gloom and chaos, where light is like darkness.’ ”

Job 16:22

For when a few years have come, I shall go the way from which I shall not return.

Job 17:13

If I look for Sheol as my house, if I spread my couch in darkness,

Job 3:13

Now I would be lying down and quiet; I would be asleep; then I would be at rest

Job 3:5

Let gloom and deep darkness claim it. Let clouds settle upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

Job 34:22

There is no gloom or deep darkness where evildoers may hide themselves.

Job 38:17

Have the gates of death been revealed to you, or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?

Psalm 23:4

Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

Psalm 39:13

Turn your gaze away from me, that I may smile again, before I depart and am no more.”

Psalm 49:20

Mortals cannot abide in their pomp; they are like the animals that perish.

Psalm 88:13

But I, O Lord, cry out to you; in the morning my prayer comes before you.

Psalm 88:6

You have put me in the depths of the Pit, in the regions dark and deep.

Ecclesiastes 11:8

Even those who live many years should rejoice in them all, yet let them remember that the days of darkness will be many. All that comes is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever your hand finds to do, do with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.

Isaiah 38:11

I said, I shall not see the Lord in the land of the living; I shall look upon mortals no more among the inhabitants of the world.

Jeremiah 2:6

They did not say, “Where is the Lord, who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us in the wilderness, in a land of deserts and pits, in a land of drought and deep darkness, in a land that no one passes through, where no one lives?”