"Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;"
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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.
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?
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.
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?
The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
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.
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.
Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
Before I go to the place from which I will not come back, to the land where all is dark and black,
Before I go, and never to return, -- to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness, and the shades of death;
Before I go where I shall not return from, To the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
Before I go, and return not, Unto a land of darkness and death-shade,