Job 10:21

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Before I go, never to return, to a land of darkness and deep shadow.

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  • 2 Sam 12:23 : 23 But now that 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 3:5 : 5 Let darkness and deep shadow claim it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let blackness of the day terrify it.
  • Job 16:22 : 22 For only a few years will come, and the path I take will never return.
  • Ps 23:4 : 4 Even 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.
  • Job 7:8-9 : 8 The eye that now sees me will see me no longer; you will look for me, but I will be no more. 9 As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so one who goes down to the grave does not return. 10 He will never come back to his house; his place will know him no more.
  • Job 14:10-14 : 10 But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last and where is he? 11 As the waters of a lake dry up or a riverbed becomes parched and dry, 12 so man lies down and does not rise; till the heavens are no more, people will not awake or be roused from their sleep. 13 If only you would hide me in the grave and conceal me till your anger has passed! If you would set me a time and then remember me! 14 If someone dies, will they live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait for my renewal to come.
  • Ps 88:6 : 6 Abandoned among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more, cut off from your care.
  • Ps 88:11-12 : 11 Do you work wonders for the dead? Do the departed rise up to praise you? Selah. 12 Is your steadfast love declared in the grave, or your faithfulness in Abaddon?
  • Isa 38:11 : 11 I said, "I will not see the LORD, the LORD, in the land of the living; I will no longer look on humanity or be with those who dwell in the world of the dead."
  • Jer 2:6 : 6 They did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD, who brought us up out of Egypt and led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and ravines, a land of drought and deep darkness, a land where no one travels and no one lives?’
  • Job 3:13 : 13 For now I would have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept, then I would be at rest.
  • 2 Sam 14:14 : 14 We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not take away life, but devises ways so that a banished person may not remain estranged from Him.

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  • 22 A land of gloom like deep darkness, a land of shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.

  • Job 10:18-20
    3 verses
    83%

    18 Why then did You bring me out of the womb? I wish I had died and no eye had seen me.

    19 If only I had never existed, carried straight from the womb to the grave.

    20 Are not my days few? Leave me alone, so I may have a moment of relief.

  • 22 For only a few years will come, and the path I take will never return.

  • Job 17:11-13
    3 verses
    77%

    11 My days have passed, my plans are broken off, and the desires of my heart are gone.

    12 They make night into day: ‘The light is near,’ they say, in the presence of darkness.

    13 If I hope for Sheol as my home, and I make my bed in darkness,

  • 17 Yet I am not silenced by the darkness or by the deep gloom that covers my face.

  • Job 7:8-11
    4 verses
    76%

    8 The eye that now sees me will see me no longer; you will look for me, but I will be no more.

    9 As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so one who goes down to the grave does not return.

    10 He will never come back to his house; his place will know him no more.

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

  • 19 Where is the way that light dwells, and where is the place of darkness,

  • Isa 38:10-11
    2 verses
    75%

    10 I said, "In the prime of my life I must go through the gates of Sheol; I am deprived of the rest of my years."

    11 I said, "I will not see the LORD, the LORD, in the land of the living; I will no longer look on humanity or be with those who dwell in the world of the dead."

  • Job 3:4-6
    3 verses
    74%

    4 May that day be darkness; may God above not seek it, nor let light shine upon it.

    5 Let darkness and deep shadow claim it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let blackness of the day terrify it.

    6 As for that night, let thick darkness seize it; let it not be joined to the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.

  • 6 He has made me dwell in dark places, like those long dead.

  • 8 But if I go to the east, he is not there; if I go to the west, I cannot perceive him.

  • Job 14:13-14
    2 verses
    73%

    13 If only you would hide me in the grave and conceal me till your anger has passed! If you would set me a time and then remember me!

    14 If someone dies, will they live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait for my renewal to come.

  • 11 If I say, 'Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,'

  • 2 He has driven me away and brought me into darkness, not into light.

  • 23 I know You will bring me back to death, to the house appointed for all the living.

  • 22 He reveals the deep things from darkness and brings deep shadows into the light.

  • 8 He has blocked my path so I cannot pass; He has shrouded my ways with darkness.

  • 17 For to them, the morning is like deep darkness; they are familiar with the terrors of the shadow of death.

  • 3 Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out to the farthest limits for ore buried in deep darkness.

  • 1 My spirit is broken, my days have faded away, and the grave is ready for me.

  • 21 Why do you not pardon my offenses and forgive my sins? For I will soon lie down in the dust; you will search for me, but I will be no more.

  • 22 He does not believe he will return from the darkness; he is marked for the sword.

  • 3 For the enemy has pursued me, crushing my life to the ground and making me dwell in darkness, like those long dead.

  • 16 Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, and before your feet stumble on the darkening mountains. You hope for light, but He will turn it to gloom and thick darkness.

  • 3 when His lamp shone upon my head, and I walked by His light through the darkness.

  • 13 Hear my prayer, LORD, and give ear to my cry; do not be silent to my tears, for I am a sojourner with You, a temporary resident like all my fathers.

  • 6 The light in his tent will grow dark, and the lamp above him will be extinguished.

  • 21 To those who long for death, but it does not come, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures.

  • 22 There is no darkness or deep shadow where evildoers can hide themselves.

  • 11 It is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of waters covers you.

  • 30 to bring back their soul from the pit, that they may be enlightened with the light of life.

  • 9 Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light but have none, nor see the eyelids of the morning.

  • 15 then where is my hope? And who can see any hope for me?

  • 10 It would still be my comfort— I would even exult in the midst of unrelenting pain— for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

  • 17 Have the gates of death been shown to you? Have you seen the gates of deepest darkness?

  • 19 Though he blesses himself during his lifetime, and people praise you when you prosper,

  • 18 He is driven from light into darkness and chased out of the world.

  • 21 Withdraw Your hand from me, and do not let Your terror frighten me.

  • 1 I am disgusted with my life; I will give voice to my complaint and speak out in the bitterness of my soul.