Job 10:20
Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
King James Version
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 whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and 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 it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
Job 8:9(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
Job 13:21Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
Psalms 39:5Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
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 →