Parallel Verses
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,
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
Holman Bible
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],
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,
Themes
Darkness » Illustrative of » The grave
Philosophy » Philosophical inductions and deductions relating to God and his providence
Topics
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 10:21
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job Continues His Response To Bildad
20 Are not the days of my life small in number? Let your eyes be turned away from me, so that I may have a little pleasure, 21 Before I go to the place from which I will not come back, to the land where all is dark and black, 22 A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.
Names
Cross References
2 Samuel 12:23
But now that the child is dead there is no reason for me to go without food; am I able to make him come back to life? I will go to him, but he will never come back to me.
Job 3:5
Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it.
Job 16:22
For in a short time I will take the journey from which I will not come back.
2 Samuel 14:14
For death comes to us all, and we are like water drained out on the earth, which it is not possible to take up again; and God will not take away the life of the man whose purpose is that he who has been sent away may not be completely cut off from him.
Job 3:13
For then I might have gone to my rest in quiet, and in sleep have been in peace,
Job 7:8-10
The eye of him who sees me will see me no longer: your eyes will be looking for me, but I will be gone.
Job 14:10-14
But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he?
Psalm 88:6
You have put me in the lowest deep, even in dark places.
Psalm 88:11-12
Will the story of your mercy be given in the house of the dead? will news of your faith come to the place of destruction?
Isaiah 38:11
I said, I will not see the Lord, even the Lord in the land of the living: I will not see man again or those living in the world.
Jeremiah 2:6
And they never said, Where is the Lord, who took us up out of the land of Egypt; who was our guide through the waste of sand, through an unplanted land full of deep holes, through a dry land of deep shade, which no one went through and where no man was living?