Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
before I go, never to return, leaving for the land of deep darkness and shadow.
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.
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,
Themes
Darkness » Illustrative of » The grave
Philosophy » Philosophical inductions and deductions relating to God and his providence
Topics
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 10:21
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job Continues His Response To Bildad
20 My days are so few, aren't they? So leave me alone, then, so I can smile a little 21 before I go, never to return, leaving for the land of deep darkness and shadow. 22 It's a gloomy land, like deepest darkness; where there's no order, and where even the brightness is like darkness.'"
Names
Cross References
2 Samuel 12:23
But now that he has died, what's the point of fasting? Can I bring him back again? I'll be going to be with him, but he won't be returning to me."
Job 3:5
Let darkness and deep gloom reclaim it; let clouds settle down on it; let blackness in mid-day terrify it.
Psalm 23:4
Even when I walk through a valley of deep darkness, I will not be afraid because you are with me. Your rod and your staff they comfort me.
Job 16:22
For when only a few years have elapsed, I'll start down a path from which I'll never return."
2 Samuel 14:14
After all, even though we all die, and we're all like water being spilled on the ground that cannot be recovered, nevertheless God doesn't take away life, but carries out his plans so as not to cast away permanently from him those who are presently estranged.
Job 3:13
"If I had died, I would be lying down by now, undisturbed, asleep, and at rest,
Job 7:8-10
The eyes of the one who sees me won't see me anymore; your eyes will look for me but I won't be around!
Job 14:10-14
"But when a person dies and wastes away, when a person breathes his last, where will he be?
Psalm 88:6
You have assigned me to the lowest part of the Pit, to the darkest depths.
Psalm 88:11-12
Can your gracious love be declared in the grave or your faithfulness in Abaddon?
Isaiah 38:11
I said, "I won't see the LORD in the land of the living; and I'll no longer observe human beings among the denizens of the grave.
Jeremiah 2:6
"They didn't ask, "Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through the land of desert and pits, through the land of dryness and deep darkness, a land that people don't pass through, and where no one lives?'