Job 10:21

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Sam 12:23 : 23 But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.
  • Job 3:5 : 5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own; Let a cloud dwell upon it; Let all that maketh black the day terrify it.
  • Job 16:22 : 22 For when a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
  • Ps 23:4 : 4 Yea, thou I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for thou art with me; Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
  • Job 7:8-9 : 8 The eye of him that seeth me shall behold me no more; Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be. 9 As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, So he that goeth down to Sheol shall come up no more. 10 He shall return no more to his house, Neither shall his place know him any more.
  • Job 14:10-14 : 10 But man dieth, and is laid low: Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? 11 [ As] the waters fail from the sea, And the river wasteth and drieth up; 12 So man lieth down and riseth not: Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, Nor be roused out of their sleep. 13 Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, That thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, That thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me! 14 If a man die, shall he live [again] ? All the days of my warfare would I wait, Till my release should come.
  • Ps 88:6 : 6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in the deeps.
  • Ps 88:11-12 : 11 Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? Or thy faithfulness in Destruction? 12 Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? And thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
  • Isa 38:11 : 11 I said, I shall not see Jehovah, [even] Jehovah in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
  • Jer 2:6 : 6 Neither said they, Where is Jehovah that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that 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 none passed through, and where no man dwelt?
  • Job 3:13 : 13 For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest,
  • 2 Sam 14:14 : 14 For we must needs die, and are as water split on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God take away life, but deviseth means, that he that is banished be not an outcast from him.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 10:22
    87%

    22The land dark as midnight, [The land] of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as midnight.

  • Job 10:18-20
    3 verses
    83%

    18Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me.

    19I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

    20Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

  • Job 16:22
    80%

    22For when a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

  • Job 17:11-13
    3 verses
    77%

    11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, Even the thoughts of my heart.

    12They change the night into day: The light, [say they], is near unto the darkness.

    13If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;

  • Job 23:17
    76%

    17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, Neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

  • Job 7:8-11
    4 verses
    76%

    8The eye of him that seeth me shall behold me no more; Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be.

    9As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, So he that goeth down to Sheol shall come up no more.

    10He shall return no more to his house, Neither shall his place know him any more.

    11Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

  • Job 38:19
    75%

    19Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And as for darkness, where is the place thereof,

  • Isa 38:10-11
    2 verses
    75%

    10I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the residue of my years.

    11I said, I shall not see Jehovah, [even] Jehovah in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

  • Job 3:4-6
    3 verses
    74%

    4Let that day be darkness; Let not God from above seek for it, Neither let the light shine upon it.

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

    6As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it: Let it not rejoice among the days of the year; Let it not come into the number of the months.

  • Lam 3:6
    74%

    6He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

  • Job 23:8
    73%

    8Behold, I go forward, but he is not [there] ; And backward, but I cannot perceive him;

  • Job 14:13-14
    2 verses
    73%

    13Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, That thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, That thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

    14If a man die, shall he live [again] ? All the days of my warfare would I wait, Till my release should come.

  • Ps 139:11
    73%

    11If I say, Surely the darkness shall overwhelm me, And the light about me shall be night;

  • Lam 3:2
    73%

    2He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.

  • Job 30:23
    73%

    23For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, And to the house appointed for all living.

  • Job 12:22
    73%

    22He uncovereth deep things out of darkness, And bringeth out to light the shadow of death.

  • Job 19:8
    73%

    8He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.

  • Job 24:17
    72%

    17For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness; For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

  • Job 28:3
    72%

    3[ Man] setteth an end to darkness, And searcheth out, to the furthest bound, The stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.

  • Job 17:1
    72%

    1My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is [ready] for me.

  • Job 7:21
    72%

    21And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust; And thou wilt seek me diligently, but I shall not be.

  • Job 15:22
    72%

    22He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, And he is waited for of the sword.

  • Ps 143:3
    72%

    3For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; He hath smitten my life down to the ground: He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

  • Jer 13:16
    72%

    16Give glory to Jehovah your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.

  • Job 29:3
    72%

    3When his lamp shined upon my head, And by his light I walked through darkness;

  • Ps 39:13
    72%

    13Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go hence, and be no more.

  • Job 18:6
    72%

    6The light shall be dark in his tent, And his lamp above him shall be put out.

  • Job 3:21
    71%

    21Who long for death, but it cometh not, And dig for it more than for hid treasures;

  • Job 34:22
    71%

    22There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

  • Job 22:11
    71%

    11Or darkness, so that thou canst not see, And abundance of waters cover thee.

  • Job 33:30
    71%

    30To bring back his soul from the pit, That he may be enlightened with the light of the living.

  • Job 3:9
    71%

    9Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark: Let it look for light, but have none; Neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning:

  • Job 17:15
    71%

    15Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?

  • Job 6:10
    71%

    10And be it still my consolation, Yea, let me exult in pain that spareth not, That I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

  • Job 38:17
    71%

    17Have the gates of death been revealed unto thee? Or hast thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?

  • Ps 49:19
    71%

    19He shall go to the generation of his fathers; They shall never see the light.

  • Job 18:18
    71%

    18He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.

  • Job 13:21
    71%

    21Withdraw thy hand far from me; And let not thy terror make me afraid.

  • Job 10:1
    70%

    1My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.