Job 10:21 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

• Job 10:21 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Before I go - from where “I shall not return.” To the grave, to the land of shades, to “That undiscovered country, from whose bourne No traveler returns.” To the land of darkness - This...

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• Job 10:21 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Before I go [whence] I shall not (t) return, [even] to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; (t) He speaks this in the person of a sinner, that is overcome with passions and with the feeling...

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• Job 10:21 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Job's tone becomes sharper. He accuses God of having created him only to torment him. What profit is there to God in destroying the work that has cost Him so much pains? ( Job 10:3 )? Is God short-si...

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• Job 10:21 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  of darkness and the shadow . deep darkness. Figure of speech Hendiadys. Not two things, but one. darkness. Hebrew. hashak. See note on Job 3:6 .

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• Job 10:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; I shall not return - I shall not return again from the dust to have a dwelling among men. To the land...

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• Job 10:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; No JFB commentary on this verse.

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• Job 10:21 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Job's Second Speech (concluded) 1-7. Job seeks the reason of his trial, and protests against God's treatment as inconsistent with the natural relations between Creator and created, and with God's...

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• Job 10:21 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  X. THE THOUGHT OF A DAYSMAN Job 9:1-35 ; Job 10:1-22 Job SPEAKS IT is with an infinitely sad restatement of what God has been made to appear to him by Bildad's speech that Job begins his reply...

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• Job 10:21 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Soul Bitterness Job 10:1-22 In this chapter Job accuses God of persecuting His own workmanship, Job 20:3 ; of pursuing him with repeated strokes, as if he had not time enough to wait between t...

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• Job 10:21 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Notwithstanding all this, Job appealed to God. Turning from his answer to Bildad, he poured out his agony as in the presence of the Most High. It was by no means a hopeful appeal, but it was an appea...

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• Job 10:21 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (14) В¶ If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity. (15) If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion...

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• Job 10:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Before I go [whence] I shall not return ,.... Before he went out of the world, the way of all flesh, to the grave, his long home, from whence there is no return to this world, and to the business an...

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• Job 10:21 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Before I go [whence] I shall not return, [even] to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; Ver. 21. Before I go whence I shall not return ] Before I go out of this world, never more to retur...

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• Job 10:21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Are not my days few? Cease then , &c. My life is short, and of itself hastens to an end; there is no need that thou shouldest grudge me some ease for so small a moment. Let me alone Or lay asi...

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• Job 10:21 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  AN ATTEMPT TO REASON WITH GOD (vv.1-22) Since there was no mediator, Job in this chapter (from verse 2 on) directs all of his words directly to God, reasoning with Him as regards why God should...

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• Job 10:21 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        14 If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.   15 If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of...

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• Job 10:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  To the place whence I shall not return into this world and life: see Job 7:9,10 . Darkness and the shadow of death, i.e. a dark and dismal shade: See Poole on " Job 3:5 " .

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• Job 10:21 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  JOB’S REPLY TO BILDAD—CONTINUED His speech takes the form rather of an expostulation with God in regard to his afflictions. The vehemence of his spirit reaches its height in this chapter. Does n...

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• Job 10:21 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 10:1 . I will leave my complaint upon myself. These words seem to imply, that he would bear his complaint in silence; but it immediately follows, I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. O...

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• Job 10:21 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Oh that I had given up the ghost! The effects of Job’s sufferings The patriarch had already in the previous verses expressed to the Almighty that his sufferings were-- (1) Too great to rend...

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• Job 10:21 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Job 10:1-18 Having answered Bildad, Job proceeds to pour out the bitterness of his soul in a pathetic complaint, which he addresses directly to God. There is not much that is nov...

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• Job 10:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Job Renews his Complaint of his Affliction

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• Job 10:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Samuel 12:23 ; 2 Samuel 14:14 ; Isaiah 38:11 ; Jeremiah 2:6 ; Job 14:10-14 ; Job 3:5 ; Job 7:8-10 ; Psalms 23:4 ; Psalms 88:11 ; Psalms 88:12 ; Psalms 88:6

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