Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
I go whence
The land
The shadow
Bible References
I go whence
Job 7:8
“The eye of him who sees me [now] will see me no more;
Your eyes will be upon me, but I will not be.
“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
“But [the brave, strong] man must die and lie face down;
Man breathes his last, and where is he?
“But [the brave, strong] man must die and lie face down;
Man breathes his last, and where is he?
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.”
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.
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.
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
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).
“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 88:6
You have laid me in the lowest pit,
In dark places, in the depths.
You have laid me in the lowest pit,
In dark places, in the depths.
The shadow
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).
“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]valley of the shadow of death,
I fear no evil, for You are with me;
Your rod [to protect] and Your staff [to guide], they comfort and console me.
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.
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?’
“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?’