Job 10:21
Before I go—and I shall not return—
To the land of darkness and the deep shadow [of death],
2 Samuel 12:23
But now he is dead; why should I [continue to] fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him [when I die], but he will not return to me.”
Job 3:5
“Let darkness and gloom claim it for their own;
Let a cloud settle upon it;
Let all that blackens the day terrify it (the day that I was born).
Psalm 23:4
Even though I walk through the [sunless]
I fear no evil, for You are with me;
Your rod [to protect] and Your staff [to guide], they comfort and console me.
Job 16:22
“For when a few years are past,
I shall go the way of no return.
2 Samuel 14:14
For we will certainly die and are like water that is spilled on the ground and cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not [simply] take away life, but devises plans so that the one who is banished is not driven away from Him.
Job 3:13
“For now I would have lain down and been quiet;
I would have slept then, I would have been at rest [in death],
Job 7:8-10
“The eye of him who sees me [now] will see me no more;
Your eyes will be upon me, but I will not be.
Job 14:10-14
“But [the brave, strong] man must die and lie face down;
Man breathes his last, and where is he?
Psalm 88:6
You have laid me in the lowest pit,
In dark places, in the depths.
Psalm 88:11-12
Will Your lovingkindness be declared in the grave
Or Your faithfulness in Abaddon (the underworld)?
Isaiah 38:11
I said, “I will not see the Lord
The Lord in the land of the living;
I will no longer see man among the inhabitants of the world.
Jeremiah 2:6
“They did not say, ‘Where is the Lord
Who brought us up from 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 deep darkness [of the shadow of death],
Through a land that no man passed through
And where no man lived?’
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
I go whence
The land
The shadow
Bible References
I go whence
“The eye of him who sees me [now] will see me no more;
Your eyes will be upon me, but I will not be.
“But [the brave, strong] man must die and lie face down;
Man breathes his last, and where is he?
I said, “I will not see the Lord
The Lord in the land of the living;
I will no longer see man among the inhabitants of the world.
The land
“Let darkness and gloom claim it for their own;
Let a cloud settle upon it;
Let all that blackens the day terrify it (the day that I was born).
You have laid me in the lowest pit,
In dark places, in the depths.
The shadow
“Let darkness and gloom claim it for their own;
Let a cloud settle upon it;
Let all that blackens the day terrify it (the day that I was born).
Even though I walk through the [sunless]
I fear no evil, for You are with me;
Your rod [to protect] and Your staff [to guide], they comfort and console me.
“They did not say, ‘Where is the Lord
Who brought us up from 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 deep darkness [of the shadow of death],
Through a land that no man passed through
And where no man lived?’