Job 10:21
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before I go—never to return— to a land of darkness and gloom,
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May darkness and gloom reclaim it, and a cloud settle over it; may the blackness of the day overwhelm it.
But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”
For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest
For surely we will die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life; but He devises ways that the banished one may not be cast out from Him.
They did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and pits, a land of drought and darkness, a land where no one travels and no one lives?’
You have laid me in the lowest Pit, in the darkest of the depths.
I said, “I will never again see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living; I will no longer look on mankind with those who dwell in this world.