Job 10:21

KJV1611 – Modern English

Before I go to the place from which I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

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  • 2 Sam 12:23 : 23 But now he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.
  • Job 3:5 : 5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let blackness of the day terrify it.
  • Job 16:22 : 22 When a few years come, then I shall go the way from which I shall not return.
  • Ps 23:4 : 4 Yes, 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 of him who has seen me shall see me no more; your eyes are upon me, and I am not. 9 As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to the grave shall come up no more. 10 He shall return no more to his house, nor shall his place know him anymore.
  • Job 14:10-14 : 10 But man dies and wastes away; yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he? 11 As the waters fail from the sea and the flood decays and dries up, 12 So man lies down and does not rise; till the heavens are no more, they shall not awake nor be raised out of their sleep. 13 Oh that You would hide me in the grave, that You would keep me secret, until Your wrath is past, that You would appoint me a set time, and remember me! 14 If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my appointed time I will wait, till my change comes.
  • Ps 88:6 : 6 You have laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the depths.
  • Ps 88:11-12 : 11 Shall your lovingkindness be declared in the grave, or your faithfulness in destruction? 12 Shall your wonders be known in the dark, and your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
  • Isa 38:11 : 11 I said, I shall not see the LORD, the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall see man no more among the inhabitants of the world.
  • Jer 2:6 : 6 Neither did they 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 one lived?
  • Job 3:13 : 13 For now I would have lain still and been quiet, I would have slept: then I would have been at rest,
  • 2 Sam 14:14 : 14 For we must die, and are as water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but he devises means, so that his banished are not expelled from him.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 10:22
    87%

    22A land of darkness, like darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

  • Job 10:18-20
    3 verses
    83%

    18Why then have You brought me forth out of the womb? Oh, that 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%

    22When a few years come, then I shall go the way from which 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 is near because of darkness.

    13If I wait, the grave is my house; I have made my bed in the darkness.

  • Job 23:17
    76%

    17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, nor has he covered the darkness from my face.

  • Job 7:8-11
    4 verses
    76%

    8The eye of him who has seen me shall see me no more; your eyes are upon me, and I am not.

    9As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to the grave shall come up no more.

    10He shall return no more to his house, nor shall his place know him anymore.

    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 its place,

  • Isa 38:10-11
    2 verses
    75%

    10I said in the prime of my days, I shall go to the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the rest of my years.

    11I said, I shall not see the LORD, the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall see man no more among the inhabitants of the world.

  • Job 3:4-6
    3 verses
    74%

    4Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, nor let the light shine upon it.

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

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

  • Lam 3:6
    74%

    6He has set me in dark places, like those 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 You would hide me in the grave, 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, shall he live again? All the days of my appointed time I will wait, till my change comes.

  • Ps 139:11
    73%

    11If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.

  • Lam 3:2
    73%

    2He has led me and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

  • Job 30:23
    73%

    23For I know that You will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

  • Job 12:22
    73%

    22He reveals deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.

  • Job 19:8
    73%

    8He has fenced up my way so that I cannot pass, and He has set darkness in my paths.

  • Job 24:17
    72%

    17For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death; if one knows them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

  • Job 28:3
    72%

    3He sets an end to darkness, and searches out all perfection: the stones of darkness and the shadow of death.

  • Job 17:1
    72%

    1My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.

  • Job 7:21
    72%

    21And why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now shall I sleep in the dust, and you shall seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.

  • Job 15:22
    72%

    22He does not believe that he shall return out of darkness, and he is marked for the sword.

  • Ps 143:3
    72%

    3For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me dwell in darkness, like those long dead.

  • Jer 13:16
    72%

    16Give glory to the LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.

  • Job 29:3
    72%

    3When His lamp shone upon my head, and by His light I walked through darkness;

  • Ps 39:13
    72%

    13O spare me, so I may recover strength, before I go away and am no more.

  • Job 18:6
    72%

    6The light shall be dark in his dwelling, and his lamp shall be put out with him.

  • Job 3:21
    71%

    21Who long for death, but it does not come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures;

  • Job 34:22
    71%

    22There is no darkness nor shadow of death where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

  • Job 22:11
    71%

    11Or darkness, that you cannot see; and an abundance of waters covers you.

  • Job 33:30
    71%

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

  • Job 3:9
    71%

    9Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it look for light, but have none; nor let it see the breaking of dawn:

  • Job 17:15
    71%

    15And where now is my hope? As for my hope, who shall see it?

  • Job 6:10
    71%

    10Then I should still have comfort; yes, I would harden myself in sorrow. Let him not spare, for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.

  • Job 38:17
    71%

    17Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the doors of the shadow of death?

  • Ps 49:19
    71%

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

  • Job 18:18
    71%

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

  • Job 13:21
    71%

    21Withdraw your hand far from me, and let not your dread make me afraid.

  • Job 10:1
    70%

    1My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.