Job 10:20
Lo! my days are but few: cease, then, withdraw from me [thy hand], that I may recover my cheerfulness a little.
Leeser Tanakh
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
19That I were as though I had not been,—had been borne from the womb to the grave.
21Before I go, and return not, to the land of darkness and the shadow of death,
Cross References
Job 7:6My days hasten away more swiftly than a weaver's shuttle, and they come to an end in the absence of hope.
Job 7:16I loathe it; I cannot live for ever: let me alone; for my days are but nought.
Job 8:9For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because a [mere] shadow are our days upon earth;—
Job 13:21Remove thy hand far from me; and let not thy dread terrify me.
Psalms 39:5(39:6) Behold, measured out with the span hast thou made my days; and my whole duration is nothing before thee: yea, as nothing but vanity doth every man stand here. Selah.
Psalms 103:15As for man, like the grass are his days: as the blossom of the field, so doth he bloom.
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 →