Holy Scripture
Job 10:21
A church father on this verse
“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…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
21Before I go whence I shall not return, To a land of darkness and gloominess;
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19And I become as if I had not been? For why was I not carried from the womb to the grave?
20Is not the time of my life short? Suffer me to rest a little,
— Job 10:21 —
22To a land of perpetual darkness, where there is no light, Neither can anyone see the life of mortals.