Job 10:21
Before I go {whence} I shall not return, {even} to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
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Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. {stain: or, challenge} {let the...: or, let them terrify it, as those who have a bitter day}
When a few years are come, then I shall go the way {whence} I shall not return. {a few...: Heb. years of number}
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.
The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no {more}: thine eyes {are} upon me, and I {am} not. {I am...: that is, I can live no longer}
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.
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 him. {neither...: or, because God hath not taken away his life, he hath also devised means, etc}
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? {or} thy faithfulness in destruction?
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where {is} he? {wasteth...: Heb. is weakened, or, cut off}
Neither said they, Where {is} the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?
I said, I shall not see the LORD, {even} the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
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.
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.
So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens {be} no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. {stain: or, challenge} {let the...: or, let them terrify it, as those who have a bitter day}
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.
{As} the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no {more}.
If I wait, the grave {is} mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
O remember that my life {is} wind: mine eye shall no more see good. {shall...: Heb. shall not return} {see: to see, that is, to enjoy}
{Shall} not the day of the LORD {be} darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.
He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.
Neither said they, Where {is} the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?
Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.