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Job 10:21

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

KJV

antequam vadam, et non revertar, ad terram tenebrosam, et opertam mortis caligine :

Vulgate

πρὸ τοῦ με πορευθῆναι ὅθεν οὐκ ἀναστρέψω, εἰς γῆν σκοτινὴν καὶ γνοφεράν, εἰς γῆν σκότους αἰωνίου, οὗ οὐκ ἔστιν φέγγος οὐδὲ ὁρᾷν ζωὴν βροτῶν.

LXX

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

ASV

בְּ/טֶ֣רֶם אֵ֭לֵךְ וְ/לֹ֣א אָשׁ֑וּב אֶל אֶ֖רֶץ חֹ֣שֶׁךְ וְ/צַלְמָֽוֶת

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֶ֣רֶץ
'rts
noun · 2484×
אֶל
'l
preposition · 5475×
חֹ֔שֶׁךְ
chshk
noun · 80×
טֶ֣רֶם
trm
adverb · 56×
יֵּ֥לֶךְ
ylk
verb · 1038×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
צַלְמָֽוֶת
tslmvt
noun · 18×
שׁ֣וּב
shvb
verb · 1058×

Historic Christian voices

1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 2Sam 12:23 — But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.
  • 2Sam 14:14 — For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from hi
  • Amos 5:20 — Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
  • Isa 9:2 — The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Job 3:13 — For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
  • Job 7:7 — O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
  • Job 7:8 — The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.
  • Job 7:9 — As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
  • Job 14:10 — But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
  • Job 14:12 — So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
  • Job 16:22 — When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
  • Job 17:13 — If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
  • Ps 23:4 — Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
  • Ps 23:4 — Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
  • Ps 88:11 — Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?
  • Ps 107:14 — He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.