Job 10:21

New International Reader's Version

Turn away before I go to the place I can’t return from. It’s the land of gloom and total darkness.

Cross References

2 Samuel 12:23

But now he’s dead. So why should I continue to go without food? Can I bring him back to life again? Someday I’ll go to him. But he won’t return to me.”

2 Samuel 14:14

All of us must die. We are like water spilled on the ground. It can’t be put back into the jar. But that is not what God desires. Instead, he finds a way to bring back anyone who was driven away from him.

Job 10:22

It’s the land of darkest night and total darkness and disorder. There even the light is like darkness.’ ”

Job 16:22

“Only a few years will pass by. Then I’ll take the path of no return.

Job 17:13

Suppose the only home I can hope for is a grave. And suppose I make my bed in the darkness of death.

Job 3:13

If all of that hadn’t happened, I would be lying down in peace. I’d be asleep and at rest in the grave.

Job 3:5

May gloom and total darkness take it back. May a cloud settle over it. May blackness cover it up.

Job 34:22

There is no deep shadow or total darkness where those who do what is evil can hide.

Job 38:17

Have the gates of death been shown to you? Have you seen the gates of the deepest darkness?

Psalm 23:4

Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will not be afraid. You are with me. Your shepherd’s rod and staff comfort me.

Psalm 39:13

Leave me alone. Let me enjoy life again before I die.”

Psalm 49:20

People who have riches but don’t understand are like the animals. They die.

Psalm 88:13

Lord, I cry out to you for help. In the morning I pray to you.

Psalm 88:6

It’s as if you have put me deep down in the grave. It’s as if you have put me in that deep, dark place.

Ecclesiastes 11:8

No matter how many years anyone might live, let them enjoy all of them. But let them remember the dark days. There will be many of those. Nothing that’s going to happen will have any meaning.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

No matter what you do, work at it with all your might. Remember, you are going to the place of the dead. And there isn’t any work or planning or knowledge or wisdom there.

Isaiah 38:11

I said, “Lord, I’ll never see you again while I’m still alive. I’ll never see people anymore. I’ll never again be with those who live in this world.

Jeremiah 2:6

They did not ask, ‘Where is the Lord? He brought us up out of Egypt. He led us through a dry and empty land. He guided us through deserts and deep valleys. It was a land of total darkness where there wasn’t any rain. No one lived or traveled there.’