Parallel Verses
King James 2000
Before I go where I shall not return, even 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;
Julia Smith Translation
Before I shall go and turn back 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 Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, 21 Before I go where I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; 22 A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
Names
Cross References
2 Samuel 12:23
But now he is dead, why should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.
Job 3:5
Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
Psalm 23:4
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for you are with me; your rod and your staff they comfort me.
Job 16:22
When a few years have come, then I shall go the way where I shall not return.
2 Samuel 14:14
For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither does God respect any person: yet does he devise means, that his banished one be not expelled from him.
Job 3:13
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then would I have been at rest,
Job 7:8-10
The eye of him that has seen me shall see me no more: your eyes are upon me, and I am not.
Job 14:10-14
But man dies, and wastes away: yea, man expires, and where is he?
Psalm 88:6
You have laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deep.
Psalm 88:11-12
Shall your lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or your faithfulness in destruction?
Isaiah 38:11
I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
Jeremiah 2:6
Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?