Psalms 39:13
(39-14) Look away from me, that I may take comfort, before I go hence, and be no more.'
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 42:36And Jacob their father said unto them: 'Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away; upon me are all these things come.'
Leviticus 25:23And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity; for the land is Mine; for ye are strangers and settlers with Me.
1 Chronicles 29:15For we are strangers before Thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.
Job 10:20Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
Job 14:10But man dieth, and lieth low; yea, man perisheth, and where is he?
Psalms 119:19I am a sojourner in the earth; hide not Thy commandments from me.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 39:8-13
Confidence in God; David Pleading with God. 7 And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee. 8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish. 9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it. 10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand. 11 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah. 12 Hear my prayer, O Lord , and give ear unto my cry; hold… Read the whole commentary →