Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Before I go—and I shall not return—
To the land of darkness and deep shadow,

King James Version

Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

Holman Bible

before I go to a land of darkness and gloom,
never to return.

International Standard Version

before I go, never to return, leaving for the land of deep darkness and shadow.

A Conservative Version

before I go where I shall not return, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death,

American Standard Version

Before I go whence I shall not return, Even to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

Amplified


Before I go—and I shall not return—
To the land of darkness and the deep shadow [of death],

Bible in Basic English

Before I go to the place from which I will not come back, to the land where all is dark and black,

Darby Translation

Before I go, and never to return, to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

Julia Smith Translation

Before I shall go and turn back to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

King James 2000

Before I go where I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

Lexham Expanded Bible

Before I go--and I will not return-- to [the] land of darkness and deep shadow,

Modern King James verseion

before I go, and I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

before I go thither, from whence I shall not turn again. Namely, to that land of darkness and shadow of death:

NET Bible

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

New Heart English Bible

before I go where I shall not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

The Emphasized Bible

Before I go, and not return, unto a land of darkness and death-shade:

Webster

Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness, and the shades of death;

World English Bible

before I go where I shall not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

Youngs Literal Translation

Before I go, and return not, Unto a land of darkness and death-shade,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Before I go
ילך 
Yalak 
Usage: 0

שׁוּב 
Shuwb 
Usage: 1058

even to the land
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

חשׁך 
Choshek 
Usage: 78

References

Easton

Morish

Smith

Context Readings

Job Continues His Response To Bildad

20 Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, 21 Before I go—and I shall not return—
To the land of darkness and deep shadow,
22 land of darkness, as darkness itself, and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

Cross References

2 Samuel 12:23

But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.

Job 3:5

Let darkness and the shadow of death redeem it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

Psalm 23:4

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff shall comfort me.

Job 16:22

When the counted years are come, then I shall go the way from which I shall not return.

2 Samuel 14:14

For it is certain that we die and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither does God respect any person; yet he does devise means that his outcasts not be expelled from him.

Job 3:13

For now I should have lain still and been quiet; I should have slept; then I would have been at rest,

Job 7:8-10

The eyes of those that see me now shall not see me again; thine eyes shall be upon me, and I will cease to be.

Job 14:10-14

But when man shall die and be cut off, and the man shall perish, where shall he be?

Psalm 88:6

Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

Psalm 88:11-12

Shall thy mercy be declared in the grave? or thy truth in hell?

Isaiah 38:11

I said, I shall not see JAH, even JAH, in the land of the living; I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

Jeremiah 2:6

Neither did they say, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that 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 no man passed through and where no man dwelt?

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