Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

before I go, and I shall not return, even 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;

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 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 Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, 21 before I go, and I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; 22 a land of obscurity, the darkness of the shadow of death, without any order, and the shining is as darkness.

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 claim 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

For the years that are few will come, and I shall go the way from where I shall not return.

2 Samuel 14:14

For we must all die, and we are as water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. And God does not take a life, but has devised plans so that the outcast is not cast out from Him.

Job 3:13

For now I should have lain still and been quiet; I should have slept. Then I would have been at rest

Job 7:8-10

The eye of him who has seen me shall see me no more; Your eyes are on me, and I am gone.

Job 14:10-14

But man dies and is cut off; and man expires, and where is he?

Psalm 88:6

You have laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

Psalm 88:11-12

Shall Your loving-kindness be declared in the grave? Or Your faithfulness in ruin?

Isaiah 38:11

I said, I shall not see Jah, Jehovah, in the land of the living; I shall look on man no more with the people of the world.

Jeremiah 2:6

Nor did they say, Where is Jehovah who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of dry places, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man lived?

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