Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

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

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;

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 Is it not my days few? He will cease; he will turn from me, and I shall be cheerful a little, 21 Before I shall go and turn back to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; 22 A land of darkness, as thick darkness; of the shadow of death, and not orders, and the brightness, as thick darkness.

Cross References

2 Samuel 12:23

And now he died, wherefore thus do I fast? shall I be able to yet turn him back? I go to him, and he will not turn back to me.

Job 3:5

Darkness shall pollute it, and the shadow of death; a cloud shall dwell upon it; the obscurations of day shall terrify it

Psalm 23:4

Also if I shall go into the valley of the shadow of death, I shall not be afraid of evil, for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they will comfort me.

Job 16:22

When years of number shall come, and the way I shall go I shall not turn back

2 Samuel 14:14

For dying, we shall die, and as waters poured out on the earth, which will not be gathered; and God will not lift up the soul: and reckoning, he reckons that the fugitive shall not be driven out from him.

Job 3:13

For now I lay down and I shall rest; I slept: then there will be rest to me.

Job 7:8-10

The eye of him seeing me shall not look after me: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not

Job 14:10-14

And man will die and be weak: and man will expire, and where is he?

Psalm 88:6

Thou didst set me in the pit beneath, in darknesses, in the shades.

Psalm 88:11-12

Shall thy mercy be recounted in the grave, thy faithfulness in destruction?

Isaiah 38:11

I said, I shall not see Jah Jah, in the land of the living: I shall no more behold man with the inhabitants of the place of rest.

Jeremiah 2:6

And they said not, Where is Jehovah bringing us up out of the land of Egypt, causing us to go through the desert into a sterile land and a pit, through a land of drought and the shadow of death, through a land not a man passed through it, and not a man dwelt there?

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