Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
Before I go, and not return, unto a land of darkness and death-shade:
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],
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;
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 my days, few? - then forbear, and set me aside, that I may brighten up for a little; 21 Before I go, and not return, unto a land of darkness and death-shade: 22 A land of obscurity, like thick darkness, of death-shade and disorder, and which shineth like thick darkness.
Names
Cross References
2 Samuel 12:23
But, now, that he is dead, wherefore should I go on fasting? can I bring him back again? I am going unto him, but, he, will not come back unto me.
Job 3:5
Let darkness and death-shade buy it back, May there settle down upon it a cloud, Let a day's dark eclipse cause it terror:
Psalm 23:4
Yea, though I walk through a valley death-shadowed, I will fear no harm, for, thou, art with me, Thy rod and thy staff, they, comfort me.
Job 16:22
When, a few years, come, then, by a path by which I shall not return, shall I depart.
2 Samuel 14:14
For, when we, die, we become as water poured on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again, - therefore doth God not take away the life, but deviseth plans so as not to thrust out from him, a fugitive.
Job 3:13
Surely, at once, had I lain down, and been quiet, I had fallen asleep, then, had I been at rest:
Job 7:8-10
Nor shall see me - the eye that used to behold me, Thine eyes, are upon me, and I am not.
Job 14:10-14
Yet, man, dieth, and is prostrate, Yea the son of earth doth cease to breathe, and where is he?
Psalm 88:6
Thou hast laid me, In the lowest pit, In dark places, In the deeps:
Psalm 88:11-12
Shall Thy lovingkindness be recounted in the grave? Thy faithfulness, in destruction?
Isaiah 38:11
I said - I shall not see Yah, Yah, in the land of the living, I shall discern the son of earth no longer, with the dwellers in the quiet land.
Jeremiah 2:6
Neither said they, Where is Yahweh, Who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, - Who led us Through the desert, Through a land of wastes and clefts, Through a land of parched places and of death-shade, Through a land, Along which no man had passed, And in which no son of earth dwelt?