Job 10:20
Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
In Context
19I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
21before I go where I shall not return, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death,
Cross References
Job 7:6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
Job 7:16I loathe [my life]. I would not live always. Let me alone, for my days are vanity.
Job 8:9(for we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow).
Job 13:21Withdraw thy hand far from me, and do not let thy dread make me afraid.
Psalms 39:5Behold, thou have made my days [as] handbreadths, and my life-time is as nothing before thee. Surely every man at his best condition is altogether vanity. Selah.
Psalms 103:15As for man, his days are as grass, as a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
Matthew Henry on Job 10:15-22
14 If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity. 15 If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction; 16 For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou showest thyself marvellous upon me. 17 Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me. 18 Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh… Read the whole commentary →