“Job wants to find relief before he has to go from where he cannot return. Therefore, he does not pray for himself, but to teach the friends who think that those who suffer hardship are evil but those who are free from hardship are righteous. He desired that they should gain certainty regarding the divine resolutions a…”
Didymus the Blind, 4th c. — COMMENTARY ON JOB 10:18-22
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21Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
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19I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
20Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
— Job 10:21 —
22A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.