Job 10:21

World English Bible (2000)

before I go where I shall not return from, 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, why 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 on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.
  • Job 16:22 : 22 For when a few years are come, I shall go the way of no 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 of him who sees me shall see me no more. Your eyes shall be on me, but I shall not be. 9 As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes 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 dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he? 11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up, 12 so man lies down and doesn't rise. Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep. 13 "Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, 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 warfare would I wait, until my release should come.
  • Ps 88:6 : 6 You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.
  • Ps 88:11-12 : 11 Is your loving kindness declared in the grave? Or your faithfulness in Destruction? 12 Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
  • Isa 38:11 : 11 I said, "I won't see Yah, Yah in the land of the living. I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
  • Jer 2:6 : 6 Neither did they say, 'Where is Yahweh 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 none passed through, and where no man lived?'
  • Job 3:13 : 13 For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,
  • 2 Sam 14:14 : 14 For we must die, and are as water split on the ground, which can't be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.

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  • Job 10:22
    87%

    22 the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.'"

  • Job 10:18-20
    3 verses
    83%

    18 "'Why, then, have you brought me forth out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.

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

    20 Aren't my days few? Cease then. Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

  • Job 16:22
    80%

    22 For when a few years are come, I shall go the way of no return.

  • Job 17:11-13
    3 verses
    77%

    11 My days are past, my plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.

    12 They change the night into day, saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.

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

  • Job 23:17
    76%

    17 Because 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%

    8 The eye of him who sees me shall see me no more. Your eyes shall be on me, but I shall not be.

    9 As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes 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.

    11 "Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

  • Job 38:19
    75%

    19 "What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,

  • Isa 38:10-11
    2 verses
    75%

    10 I said, "In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years."

    11 I said, "I won't see Yah, Yah in the land of the living. I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

  • Job 3:4-6
    3 verses
    74%

    4 Let that day be darkness. Don't let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.

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

    6 As for that night, let thick darkness seize on 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%

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

  • Job 23:8
    73%

    8 "If I go east, he is not there; if west, I can't find him;

  • Job 14:13-14
    2 verses
    73%

    13 "Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, 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 warfare would I wait, until my release should come.

  • Ps 139:11
    73%

    11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; the light around me will be night;"

  • Lam 3:2
    73%

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

  • Job 30:23
    73%

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

  • Job 12:22
    73%

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

  • Job 19:8
    73%

    8 He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

  • Job 24:17
    72%

    17 For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

  • Job 28:3
    72%

    3 Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.

  • Job 17:1
    72%

    1 "My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me.

  • Job 7:21
    72%

    21 Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be."

  • Job 15:22
    72%

    22 He doesn't believe that he shall return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword.

  • Ps 143:3
    72%

    3 For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

  • Jer 13:16
    72%

    16 Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on 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%

    3 when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,

  • Ps 39:13
    72%

    13 Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away, and exist no more." For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.

  • Job 18:6
    72%

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

  • Job 3:21
    71%

    21 Who long for death, but it doesn't come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,

  • Job 34:22
    71%

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

  • Job 22:11
    71%

    11 or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.

  • Job 33:30
    71%

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

  • Job 3:9
    71%

    9 Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

  • Job 17:15
    71%

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

  • Job 6:10
    71%

    10 Be it still my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn't spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

  • Job 38:17
    71%

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

  • Ps 49:19
    71%

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

  • Job 18:18
    71%

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

  • Job 13:21
    71%

    21 withdraw your hand far from me; and don't let your terror make me afraid.

  • Job 10:1
    70%

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