Job 10:21

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Before I go to the place from which I will not come back, to the land where all is dark and black,

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Sam 12:23 : 23 But now that the child is dead there is no reason for me to go without food; am I able to make him come back to life? I will go to him, but he will never come back to me.
  • Job 3:5 : 5 Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it.
  • Job 16:22 : 22 For in a short time I will take the journey from which I will not come back.
  • Ps 23:4 : 4 Yes, though I go through the valley of deep shade, I will have no fear of evil; for you are with me, your rod and your support are my comfort.
  • Job 7:8-9 : 8 The eye of him who sees me will see me no longer: your eyes will be looking for me, but I will be gone. 9 A cloud comes to an end and is gone; so he who goes down into the underworld comes not up again. 10 He will not come back to his house, and his place will have no more knowledge of him.
  • Job 14:10-14 : 10 But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he? 11 The waters go from a pool, and a river becomes waste and dry; 12 So man goes down to his last resting-place and comes not again: till the heavens come to an end, they will not be awake or come out of their sleep. 13 If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again! 14 If death takes a man, will he come to life again? All the days of my trouble I would be waiting, till the time came for me to be free.
  • Ps 88:6 : 6 You have put me in the lowest deep, even in dark places.
  • Ps 88:11-12 : 11 Will the story of your mercy be given in the house of the dead? will news of your faith come to the place of destruction? 12 May there be knowledge of your wonders in the dark? or of your righteousness where memory is dead?
  • Isa 38:11 : 11 I said, I will not see the Lord, even the Lord in the land of the living: I will not see man again or those living in the world.
  • Jer 2:6 : 6 And they never said, Where is the Lord, who took us up out of the land of Egypt; who was our guide through the waste of sand, through an unplanted land full of deep holes, through a dry land of deep shade, which no one went through and where no man was living?
  • Job 3:13 : 13 For then I might have gone to my rest in quiet, and in sleep have been in peace,
  • 2 Sam 14:14 : 14 For death comes to us all, and we are like water drained out on the earth, which it is not possible to take up again; and God will not take away the life of the man whose purpose is that he who has been sent away may not be completely cut off from him.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 10:22
    87%

    22 A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.

  • Job 10:18-20
    3 verses
    83%

    18 Why then did you make me come out of my mother's body? It would have been better for me to have taken my last breath, and for no eye to have seen me,

    19 And for me to have been as if I had not been; to have been taken from my mother's body straight to my last resting-place.

    20 Are not the days of my life small in number? Let your eyes be turned away from me, so that I may have a little pleasure,

  • Job 16:22
    80%

    22 For in a short time I will take the journey from which I will not come back.

  • Job 17:11-13
    3 verses
    77%

    11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the desires of my heart.

    12 They are changing night into day; they say, The light is near the dark.

    13 If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;

  • Job 23:17
    76%

    17 For I am overcome by the dark, and by the black night which is covering my face.

  • Job 7:8-11
    4 verses
    76%

    8 The eye of him who sees me will see me no longer: your eyes will be looking for me, but I will be gone.

    9 A cloud comes to an end and is gone; so he who goes down into the underworld comes not up again.

    10 He will not come back to his house, and his place will have no more knowledge of him.

    11 So I will not keep my mouth shut; I will let the words come from it in the pain of my spirit, my soul will make a bitter outcry.

  • Job 38:19
    75%

    19 Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark;

  • Isa 38:10-11
    2 verses
    75%

    10 I said, In the quiet of my days I am going down into the underworld: the rest of my years are being taken away from me.

    11 I said, I will not see the Lord, even the Lord in the land of the living: I will not see man again or those living in the world.

  • Job 3:4-6
    3 verses
    74%

    4 That day--let it be dark; let not God take note of it from on high, and let not the light be shining on it;

    5 Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it.

    6 That night--let the thick dark take it; let it not have joy among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.

  • Lam 3:6
    74%

    6 He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.

  • Job 23:8
    73%

    8 See, I go forward, but he is not there; and back, but I do not see him;

  • Job 14:13-14
    2 verses
    73%

    13 If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!

    14 If death takes a man, will he come to life again? All the days of my trouble I would be waiting, till the time came for me to be free.

  • Ps 139:11
    73%

    11 If I say, Only let me be covered by the dark, and the light about me be night;

  • Lam 3:2
    73%

    2 By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light.

  • Job 30:23
    73%

    23 For I am certain that you will send me back to death, and to the meeting-place ordered for all living.

  • Job 12:22
    73%

    22 Uncovering deep things out of the dark, and making the deep shade bright;

  • Job 19:8
    73%

    8 My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.

  • Job 24:17
    72%

    17 For the middle of the night is as morning to them, they are not troubled by the fear of the dark.

  • Job 28:3
    72%

    3 Man puts an end to the dark, searching out to the farthest limit the stones of the deep places of the dark.

  • Job 17:1
    72%

    1 My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.

  • Job 7:21
    72%

    21 And why do you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.

  • Job 15:22
    72%

    22 He has no hope of coming safe out of the dark, and his fate will be the sword;

  • Ps 143:3
    72%

    3 The evil man has gone after my soul; my life is crushed down to the earth: he has put me in the dark, like those who have long been dead.

  • Jer 13:16
    72%

    16 Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.

  • Job 29:3
    72%

    3 When his light was shining over my head, and when I went through the dark by his light.

  • Ps 39:13
    72%

    13 Let your wrath be turned away from me, so that I may be comforted, before I go away from here, and become nothing.

  • Job 18:6
    72%

    6 The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out.

  • Job 3:21
    71%

    21 To those whose desire is for death, but it comes not; who are searching for it more than for secret wealth;

  • Job 34:22
    71%

    22 There is no dark place, and no thick cloud, in which the workers of evil may take cover.

  • Job 22:11
    71%

    11 Your light is made dark so that you are unable to see, and you are covered by a mass of waters.

  • Job 33:30
    71%

    30 Keeping back his soul from the underworld, so that he may see the light of life.

  • Job 3:9
    71%

    9 Let its morning stars be dark; let it be looking for light, but may it not have any; let it not see the eyes of the dawn.

  • Job 17:15
    71%

    15 Where then is my hope? and who will see my desire?

  • Job 6:10
    71%

    10 So I would still have comfort, and I would have joy in the pains of death, for I have not been false to the words of the Holy One.

  • Job 38:17
    71%

    17 Have the doors of death been open to you, or have the door-keepers of the dark ever seen you?

  • Ps 49:19
    71%

    19 He will go to the generation of his fathers; he will not see the light again.

  • Job 18:18
    71%

    18 He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.

  • Job 13:21
    71%

    21 Take your hand far away from me; and let me not be overcome by fear of you.

  • Job 10:1
    70%

    1 My soul is tired of life; I will let my sad thoughts go free in words; my soul will make a bitter outcry.