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
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;
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 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.
Names
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?