Job 10:20

Are not the days of my life small in number? Let your eyes be turned away from me, so that I may have a little pleasure,

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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

19And for me to have been as if I had not been; to have been taken from my mother's body straight to my last resting-place.

21Before I go to the place from which I will not come back, to the land where all is dark and black,

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Cross References

Job 7:6My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.

Job 7:16I have no desire for life, I would not be living for ever! Keep away from me, for my days are as a breath.

Job 8:9(For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:)

Job 13:21Take your hand far away from me; and let me not be overcome by fear of you.

Psalms 39:5\39:4\Lord, give me knowledge of my end, and of the measure of my days, so that I may see how feeble I am.

Psalms 103:15As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field.

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 →

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