Job 10:20
Shall not the fewness of my days be ended shortly? suffer me, therefore, that I may lament my sorrow a little:
Douay-Rheims 1899
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, carried from the womb to the grave.
21Before I go, and return no more, to a land that is dark and covered with the mist of death:
Cross References
Job 7:6My days have passed more swiftly than the web is cut by the weaver, and are consumed without any hope.
Job 7:16I have done with hope, I shall now live no longer: spare me, for my days are nothing.
Job 8:9(For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant that our days upon earth are but a shadow:)
Job 13:21Withdraw thy hand far from me, and let not thy dread terrify me.
Psalms 39:5I spoke with my tongue : O Lord, make me know my end. And what is the number of my days : that I may know what is wanting to me.
Psalms 103:15man's days are as grass, as the flower of the field so shall he flourish.
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 →