Job 10:21
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New International Version (©1984)
before I go to the place of no return, to the land of gloom and deep shadow,

New Living Translation (©2007)
before I leave--never to return--for the land of darkness and utter gloom.

English Standard Version (©2001)
before I go—and I shall not return— to the land of darkness and deep shadow,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Before I go-- and I shall not return-- To the land of darkness and deep shadow,

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
before I go away to a land of darkness and gloom,

King James Bible
Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

American King James Version
Before I go from where I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and 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;

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,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Before I go, and return no more, to a land that is dark and covered with the mist of death:

Darby Bible Translation
Before I go, and never to return, to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

English Revised Version
Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

Webster's Bible Translation
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;

Young's Literal Translation
Before I go, and return not, Unto a land of darkness and death-shade,

Geneva Study Bible

Before I go whence I shall not {t} return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

(t) He speaks this in the person of a sinner, that is overcome with passions and with the feeling of God's judgments and therefore cannot apprehend in that state the mercies of God, and the comfort of the resurrection.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

10:14-22 Job did not deny that as a sinner he deserved his sufferings; but he thought that justice was executed upon him with peculiar rigour. His gloom, unbelief, and hard thoughts of God, were as much to be ascribed to Satan's inward temptations, and his anguish of soul, under the sense of God's displeasure, as to his outward trials, and remaining depravity. Our Creator, become in Christ our Redeemer also, will not destroy the work of his hands in any humble believer; but will renew him unto holiness, that he may enjoy eternal life. If anguish on earth renders the grave a desirable refuge, what will be their condition who are condemned to the blackness of darkness for ever? Let every sinner seek deliverance from that dreadful state, and every believer be thankful to Jesus, who delivereth from the wrath to come.


2 Samuel 12:23 "But now he has died; why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me."
Job 3:13 "For now I would have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept then, I would have been at rest,
Job 10:22 The land of utter gloom as darkness itself, Of deep shadow without order, And which shines as the darkness."
Job 16:22 "For when a few years are past, I shall go the way of no return.
Job 34:22 "There is no darkness or deep shadow Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
Job 38:17 "Have the gates of death been revealed to you, Or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?
Psalm 23:4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
Psalm 88:12 Will Your wonders be made known in the darkness? And Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? (NASB ©1995)

Black Dark Darkness Death Death-Shade Deep Gloom Shades Shadow Whence


Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

I go whence 7:8-10 14:10-14 2Sa 12:23 14:14 Isa 38:11

the land 3:5 Ps 88:6,11,12

the shadow. See on 3:5 Ps 23:4 Jer 2:6

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