Job 10:21

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before I depart, never to return, to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow,

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Sam 12:23 : 23 But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Am I able to bring him back at this point? I will go to him, but he cannot return to me!’”
  • Job 3:5 : 5 Let darkness and the deepest shadow claim it; let a cloud settle on it; let whatever blackens the day terrify it!
  • Job 16:22 : 22 For the years that lie ahead are few, and then I will go on the way of no return.
  • Ps 23:4 : 4 Even when I must walk through the darkest valley, I fear no danger, for you are with me; your rod and your staff reassure me.
  • Job 7:8-9 : 8 The eye of him who sees me now will see me no more; your eyes will look for me, but I will be gone. 9 As a cloud is dispersed and then disappears, so the one who goes down to the grave does not come up again. 10 He returns no more to his house, nor does his place of residence know him any more.
  • Job 14:10-14 : 10 But man dies and is powerless; he expires– and where is he? 11 As water disappears from the sea, or a river drains away and dries up, 12 so man lies down and does not rise; until the heavens are no more, they will not awake nor arise from their sleep. 13 The Possibility of Another Life“O that you would hide me in Sheol, and conceal me till your anger has passed! O that you would set me a time and then remember me! 14 If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait until my release comes.
  • Ps 88:6 : 6 You place me in the lowest regions of the Pit, in the dark places, in the watery depths.
  • Ps 88:11-12 : 11 Is your loyal love proclaimed in the grave, or your faithfulness in the place of the dead? 12 Are your amazing deeds experienced in the dark region, or your deliverance in the land of oblivion?
  • Isa 38:11 : 11 “I thought,‘I will no longer see the LORD in the land of the living, I will no longer look on humankind with the inhabitants of the world.
  • Jer 2:6 : 6 They did not ask:‘Where is the LORD who delivered us out of Egypt, who brought us through the wilderness, through a land of valleys and gorges, through a land of desert and deep darkness, through a land in which no one travels, and where no one lives?’
  • Job 3:13 : 13 For now I would be lying down and would be quiet, I would be asleep and then at peace
  • 2 Sam 14:14 : 14 Certainly we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground that cannot be gathered up again. But God does not take away life; instead he devises ways for the banished to be restored.

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  • Job 10:22
    87%

    22to the land of utter darkness, like the deepest darkness, and the deepest shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”

  • Job 10:18-20
    3 verses
    83%

    18An Appeal for Relief“Why then did you bring me out from the womb? I should have died and no eye would have seen me!

    19I should have been as though I had never existed; I should have been carried right from the womb to the grave!

    20Are not my days few? Cease, then, and leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

  • Job 16:22
    80%

    22For the years that lie ahead are few, and then I will go on the way of no return.

  • Job 17:11-13
    3 verses
    77%

    11My days have passed, my plans are shattered, even the desires of my heart.

    12These men change night into day; they say,‘The light is near in the face of darkness.’

    13If I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

  • Job 23:17
    76%

    17Yet I have not been silent because of the darkness, because of the thick darkness that covered my face.

  • Job 7:8-11
    4 verses
    76%

    8The eye of him who sees me now will see me no more; your eyes will look for me, but I will be gone.

    9As a cloud is dispersed and then disappears, so the one who goes down to the grave does not come up again.

    10He returns no more to his house, nor does his place of residence know him any more.

    11Job Remonstrates with God“Therefore, 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%

    19“In what direction does light reside, and darkness, where is its place,

  • Isa 38:10-11
    2 verses
    75%

    10“I thought,‘In the middle of my life I must walk through the gates of Sheol, I am deprived of the rest of my years.’

    11“I thought,‘I will no longer see the LORD in the land of the living, I will no longer look on humankind with the inhabitants of the world.

  • Job 3:4-6
    3 verses
    74%

    4That day– let it be darkness; let not God on high regard it, nor let light shine on it!

    5Let darkness and the deepest shadow claim it; let a cloud settle on it; let whatever blackens the day terrify it!

    6That night– let darkness seize it; let it not be included among the days of the year; let it not enter among the number of the months!

  • Lam 3:6
    74%

    6He has made me reside in deepest darkness like those who died long ago.

  • Job 23:8
    73%

    8The Inaccessibility and Power of God“If I go to the east, he is not there, and to the west, yet I do not perceive him.

  • Job 14:13-14
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    73%

    13The Possibility of Another Life“O that you would hide me in Sheol, and conceal me till your anger has passed! O that you would set me a time and then remember me!

    14If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait until my release comes.

  • Ps 139:11
    73%

    11If I were to say,“Certainly the darkness will cover me, and the light will turn to night all around me,”

  • Lam 3:2
    73%

    2He drove me into captivity and made me walk in darkness and not light.

  • Job 30:23
    73%

    23I know that you are bringing me to death, to the meeting place for all the living.

  • Job 12:22
    73%

    22He reveals the deep things of darkness, and brings deep shadows into the light.

  • Job 19:8
    73%

    8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness over my paths.

  • Job 24:17
    72%

    17For all of them, the morning is to them like deep darkness; they are friends with the terrors of darkness.

  • Job 28:3
    72%

    3Man puts an end to the darkness; he searches the farthest recesses for the ore in the deepest darkness.

  • Job 17:1
    72%

    1My spirit is broken, my days have faded out, the grave awaits me.

  • Job 7:21
    72%

    21And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust, and you will seek me diligently, but I will be gone.”

  • Job 15:22
    72%

    22He does not expect to escape from darkness; he is marked for the sword;

  • Ps 143:3
    72%

    3Certainly my enemies chase me. They smash me into the ground. They force me to live in dark regions, like those who have been dead for ages.

  • Jer 13:16
    72%

    16Show the LORD your God the respect that is due him. Do it before he brings the darkness of disaster. Do it before you stumble into distress like a traveler on the mountains at twilight. Do it before he turns the light of deliverance you hope for into the darkness and gloom of exile.

  • Job 29:3
    72%

    3when he caused his lamp to shine upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;

  • Ps 39:13
    72%

    13Turn your angry gaze away from me, so I can be happy before I pass away.

  • Job 18:6
    72%

    6The light in his tent grows dark; his lamp above him is extinguished.

  • Job 3:21
    71%

    21to those who wait for death that does not come, and search for it more than for hidden treasures,

  • Job 34:22
    71%

    22There is no darkness, and no deep darkness, where evildoers can hide themselves.

  • Job 22:11
    71%

    11why it is so dark you cannot see, and why a flood of water covers you.

  • Job 33:30
    71%

    30to turn back his life from the place of corruption, that he may be enlightened with the light of life.

  • Job 3:9
    71%

    9Let its morning stars be darkened; let it wait for daylight but find none, nor let it see the first rays of dawn,

  • Job 17:15
    71%

    15where then is my hope? And my hope, who sees it?

  • Job 6:10
    71%

    10Then I would yet have my comfort, then I would rejoice, in spite of pitiless pain, for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.

  • Job 38:17
    71%

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

  • Ps 49:19
    71%

    19But he will join his ancestors; they will never again see the light of day.

  • Job 18:18
    71%

    18He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.

  • Job 13:21
    71%

    21Remove your hand far from me and stop making me afraid with your terror.

  • Job 10:1
    70%

    1An Appeal for Revelation“I am weary of my life; I will complain without restraint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.