Job 10:20
Will not my few days be completed soon? Release me, therefore, so that I may lament my sorrows a little,
Catholic Public Domain 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 if I had not been: transferred from the womb to the tomb.
21before I depart and return no more to a land that is dark and covered with the fog of death,
Cross References
Job 7:6My days have passed by more quickly than threads are cut by a weaver, and they have been consumed without any hope.
Job 7:16I despair; by no means will I live any longer. Spare me, for my days are nothing.
Job 8:9(of course, we are but of yesterday and are ignorant that our days on earth are like a shadow,)
Job 13:21Take your hand far away from me, and do not let your dread terrify me.
Psalms 39:5Blessed is the man whose hope is in the name of the Lord, and who has no respect for vanities and absurd falsehoods.
Psalms 103:15and wine, in order to cheer the heart of man. Then he may gladden his face with oil, and bread will confirm the heart of man.
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 →