Devine Scripture

Job 10:21

Job chapter 10 · verse 21 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.20Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

v.21This passage

v.22The land dark as midnight, The landof the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as midnight.

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.