Job 10:20
Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort,
Majority Standard Bible
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
19If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave.
21before I go—never to return—to a land of darkness and gloom,
Cross References
Job 7:6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.
Job 7:16I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
Job 8:9For we were born yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are but a shadow.
Job 13:21Withdraw Your hand from me, and do not let Your terror frighten me.
Psalms 39:5You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
Psalms 103:15As for man, his days are like grass—he blooms like a flower of the field;
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 →