Job 10:21

WEB

²¹before I go where I will not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

KJV

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

BSB

²¹before I go—never to return— to a land of darkness and gloom,

FBV

²¹before I go to where I shall never return from, the land of darkness and the shadow of death—

Extra References

Job 3:5

⁵Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes the day black terrify it.

2 Samuel 12:23

²³But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”

Job 16:22

²²For when a few years have come, I will go the way of no return.

⁸The eye of him who sees me will see me no more. Your eyes will be on me, but I will not be. ⁹As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol^[+] will come up no more. ¹⁰He will return no more to his house, neither will his place know him any more.

Psalms 23:4

⁴Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

2 Samuel 14:14

¹⁴For we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground, which can’t be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.

Job 3:13

¹³For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,

Psalms 88:11-12

¹¹Is your loving kindness declared in the grave? Or your faithfulness in Destruction? ¹²Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

Job 14:10-14

¹⁰But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he? ¹¹As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up, ¹²so man lies down and doesn’t rise. Until the heavens are no more, they will not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep. ¹³“Oh that you would hide me in Sheol,^[+] that you would keep me secret until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time and remember me! ¹⁴If a man dies, will he live again? I would wait all the days of my warfare, until my release should come.

Jeremiah 2:6

⁶They didn’t say, ‘Where is the LORD who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that no one passed through, and where no man lived?’