Job 7:9 says the dead do not come up from Sheol—identical to the 'shall not return' statement here.

Job 7:10 continues the same thought: the dead never return to their home—direct parallel to this verse.

Job 14:5 states man's days are fixed by God—reinforcing the same certainty of death expressed here.

Job 14:10 asks where man is after death—echoing the same theme of life's finality and no return.

Job 7:6 laments days swift as a weaver's shuttle, echoing Job's 'few years' and sense of limited time.

Job 14:14 questions if man will live again after death—contrasting the finality of 'shall not return' in this verse.

Job 4:20 speaks of perishing forever without regard, reinforcing the finality of death that Job anticipates.

1 Kings 2:2 has David saying 'I go the way of all the earth', a direct verbal parallel to Job's 'go the way whence I shall not return'.