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 will behold me no more; while your eyes are on me, I shall be gone.
Job 14:10
But a man dies and is laid low; man breathes his last, and where is he?
2 Samuel 12:23
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."
2 Samuel 14:14
We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. But God will not take away life, and he devises means so that the banished one will not remain an outcast.
Isaiah 38:11
I said, I shall not see the LORD, the LORDin the land of the living; I shall look on man no more among the inhabitants of the world.
The land
Job 3:5
Let gloom and deep darkness claim it. Let clouds dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
Psalm 88:6
You have put me in the depths of the pit, in the regions dark and deep.
The shadow
Job 3:5
Let gloom and deep darkness claim it. Let clouds dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
Psalm 23:4
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
Jeremiah 2:6
They did not say, 'Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us in the wilderness, in a land of deserts and pits, in a land of drought and deep darkness, in a land that none passes through, where no man dwells?'