Job 10:20
Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 whence I shall not return, even 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 it; I shall not live alway; let me alone; for my days are vanity.
Job 8:9For 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 let not Thy terror make me afraid.
Psalms 39:5(39-6) Behold, Thou hast made my days as hand-breadths; and mine age is as nothing before Thee; surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. Selah
Psalms 103:15As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
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 →