Job 10:20
Aren’t my days few? Stop! Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
World English Bible Classic
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 have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
21before I go where I will not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
Cross References
Job 7:6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
Job 7:16I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
Job 8:9(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)
Job 13:21withdraw your hand far from me, and don’t let your terror make me afraid.
Psalms 39:5Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.” Selah.
Psalms 103:15As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
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 →