Job 10:21
What does Job 10:21 mean?
A plain-English look at Job 10:21 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Before I go whence I shall not return, Evento the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
KJV
King James Version · 1611Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Before I go whence I shall not return, Evento the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Before I go to the place from which I will not come back, to the land where all is dark and black,
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Before I go, and return not, Unto a land of darkness and death-shade,
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Before I go and return no more, to a land that is dark and covered with the mist of death:
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Before I go, and never to return, — to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 3:5
Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own; Let a cloud dwell upon it; Let all that maketh black the day terrify it.
- Job 14:10
But man dieth, and is laid low: Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
- Job 3:13
For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest,
- Job 7:8
The eye of him that seeth me shall behold me no more; Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be.
- 2 Samuel 12:23
But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.
- 2 Samuel 14:14
For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God take away life, but deviseth means, that he that is banished be not an outcast from him.
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