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.”
Job 10:21 - Revised Standard Version before I go whence I shall not return, to the land of gloom and deep darkness, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.”
We must all die, we are like water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; but God will not take away the life of him who devises means not to keep his banished one an outcast.
For when a few years have come I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
For then I should have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then I should have been at rest,
Let gloom and deep darkness claim it. Let clouds dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
There is no gloom or deep darkness where evildoers may hide themselves.
Have the gates of death been revealed to you, or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil; for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
Look away from me, that I may know gladness, before I depart and be no more!”
But I, O Lord, cry to thee; in the morning my prayer comes before thee.
Thou hast put me in the depths of the Pit, in the regions dark and deep.
For if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember that the days of darkness will be many. All that comes is vanity.
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.
I said, I shall not see the Lord in the land of the living; I shall look upon man no more among the inhabitants of the world.
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 none passes through, where no man dwells?’