Before I go whence I shall not return, Even to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
Job 3:13 - Revised Version 1885 For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest: Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For then would I have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept; then would I have been at rest [in death] American Standard Version (1901) For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest, Common English Bible For now I would be lying down quietly; I’d sleep; rest would be mine Catholic Public Domain Version For by now, I should have been sleeping silently, and taking rest in my sleep Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For now I should have been asleep and still; and should have rest in my sleep: |
Before I go whence I shall not return, Even to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
A land of thick darkness, as darkness itself; A land of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as darkness.
Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth; Thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
For when a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
If I look for Sheol as mine house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;
But I know that my redeemer liveth, And that he shall stand up at the last upon the earth:
Whom I shall see for myself, And mine eyes shall behold, and not another. My reins are consumed within me.
They spend their days in prosperity, And in a moment they go down to Sheol.
Drought and heat consume the snow waters: So doth Sheol those which have sinned.
The womb shall forget him; The worm shall feed sweetly on him; He shall be no more remembered: And unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.
They that are deceased tremble Beneath the waters and the inhabitants thereof.
Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts, that I should suck?
There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust; And thou shall seek me diligently, but I shall not be.
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war, and have laid their swords under their heads, and their iniquities are upon their bones; for they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.