New Revised Standard Version
before I go, never to return, to the land of gloom and deep darkness,

Contemporary English Version
before I travel to the land

New American Bible
Before I go whence I shall not return, to the land of darkness and of gloom,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Before I go and return no more, to a land that is dark and covered with the mist of death:

Before I go and return no more, to a land that is dark and covered with the mist of death:

I go whence

Job 7:8-10 Nor shall the sight of man behold me: thy eyes are upon me, and I shall be no more. . . .

Job 14:10-14 But man when he shall be dead, and stripped and consumed, I pray you where is he? . . .

2 Samuel 12:23 But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Shall I be able to bring him back any more? I shall go to him rather: but he shall not return to me.

2 Samuel 14:14 We all die, and like waters that return no more, we fall down into the earth: neither will God have a soul to perish, but recalleth, meaning that he that is cast off should not altogether perish.

Isaiah 38:11 I said: I shall not see the Lord God in the land of the living. I shall behold man no more, nor the inhabitant of rest.

the land

Job 3:5 Let darkness, and the shadow of death, cover it, let a mist overspread it, and let it be wrapped up in bitterness.

Psalm 88:6,11,12 They have laid me in the lower pit: in the dark places, and in the shadow of death. . . .

the shadow.

Job 3:5 Let darkness, and the shadow of death, cover it, let a mist overspread it, and let it be wrapped up in bitterness.

Psalm 23:4 For though I should walk in the midst of the shadow of death, I will fear no evils, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff, they have comforted me.

Jeremiah 2:6 And they have not said: Where is the Lord, that made us come up out of the land of Egypt? that led us through the desert, through a land uninhabited and unpassable, through a land of drought, and the image of death, through a land wherein no man walked, nor any man dwelt?