Job 10:20
Are not my days few? O spare then, And let me alone, that I may be at ease a little while,
Noyes 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
19I should be as though I had not been; I should have been borne from the womb to the grave.
21Before I go— whence I shall not return—To the land of darkness and death-shade,
Cross References
Job 7:6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle; They pass away without hope.
Job 7:16I am wasting away; I shall not live alway: Let me alone, for my days are a vapor!
Job 8:9(For we are of yesterday and know nothing, Since our days upon the earth are but a shadow;)
Job 13:21Let not thy hand be heavy upon me, And let not thy terrors make me afraid:
Psalms 39:5Behold, thou hast made my days as a hand-breadth, And my life is as nothing before thee; Yea, every man in his firmest state is altogether vanity. [[Pause.]]
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 →