Parallel Verses

The Emphasized Bible

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

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;

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? - 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.

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?

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