Psalms 39:13
Now please leave me alone, and do not punish me any more in order that I may smile and be happy for a while before I die. [EUP, DOU]”
Translation for Translators
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 42:36Their father Jacob said to them, “You have caused two of my children to be taken from me! Joseph is dead, and Simeon is gone! And now you want to take Benjamin from me! It is I who am suffering because of all these things that are happening!”
Leviticus 25:23‘You must not sell any of your land to belong to someone else permanently, because the land is not yours, it; is really mine, and you are only living on it temporarily and ◄farming/taking care of► it for me.
1 Chronicles 29:15In this land we are like [MET] foreigners and strangers, like our ancestors were. Our time here on this earth is like [SIM] a shadow that disappears quickly; we know that there is nothing that can enable us to escape dying.
Job 10:20I think that [RHQ] there are only a few days for me to remain alive; so ◄allow me to be alone/stop attacking me►, in order that I may be a little cheerful
Job 14:10But when we people lose all our strength and die, we stop breathing and then we are gone forever.
Psalms 119:19I am living here on the earth for only a short time; ◄do not prevent me from understanding/help me to understand► [LIT] ◄your commands/what you have commanded►.
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 →