Before I go— and I shall not return— To the land of darkness and deep shadow,

就是在我去而不返，往黑暗和死荫之地以先。

就是在我去而不返，往黑暗和死荫之地以先。

我很快就一去不返，进入幽冥黑暗之地。

在去而不返之前，可以喜乐片刻；

就是在我去而不返，往黑暗和死蔭之地以先。

就是在我去而不返，往黑暗和死蔭之地以先。

我很快就一去不返，進入幽冥黑暗之地。

在去而不返之前，可以喜樂片刻；

在往而不返之先，往黑暗死蔭之地以先，稍有喜色。

在我往而不返之先、未至幽冥陰翳之地、

然後長往不返、至幽暗陰翳之地。

在我往而不返之先、使我稍得安息、我所將往之處、乃幽暗死陰之地、

before I go to the place of no return, to the land of gloom and utter darkness,

Turn away before I go to the place I can’t return from. It’s the land of gloom and total darkness.

before I go— and I shall not return— to the land of darkness and deep shadow,

before I leave— never to return— for the land of darkness and utter gloom.

before I go to a land of darkness and gloom, never to return.

Before I go to the place from which I shall not 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 of the shadow of death;

before I go to a land of darkness and gloom, never to return.

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

before I depart, never to return, to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow,

before I go where I will not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

May darkness and black gloom claim it; May a cloud settle on it; May the blackness of the day terrify it.

But now he has died; why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I am going to him, but he will not return to me.”

For when a few years are past, I shall go the way of no return.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.

But a man dies and lies prostrate. A person passes away, and where is he?As water evaporates from the sea, And a river becomes parched and dried up,So a man lies down and does not rise. Until the heavens no longer exist, He will not awake nor be woken from his sleep.“ Oh that You would hide me in Sheol, That You would conceal me until Your wrath returns to You, That You would set a limit for me and remember me!If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my struggle I will wait Until my relief comes.

The eye of him who sees me will no longer look at me; Your eyes will be on me, but I will not exist.When a cloud vanishes, it is gone; In the same way one who goes down to Sheol does not come up.He will not return to his house again, Nor will his place know about him anymore.

For now I would have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept then, I would have been at rest,

For we will surely die and are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up. Yet God does not take away life, but makes plans so that the banished one will not be cast out from Him.

Will Your graciousness be declared in the grave, Your faithfulness in Abaddon?Will Your wonders be made known in the darkness? And Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

I said,“ I will not see the Lord, The Lord in the land of the living; I will no longer look on mankind among the inhabitants of the world.

You have put me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in the depths.

They did not say,‘ Where is the Lord Who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, Who led us through the wilderness, Through a land of deserts and of pits, Through a land of drought and of deep darkness, Through a land that no one crossed And where no person lived?’