Job 10:20
Aren't my days few?Cease then.Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
New Heart English 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 have been as though I had not been.I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
21before I go where I shall 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 do not 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 do not let your terror make me afraid.
Psalms 39:5Behold, you have made my days handbreadths.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 →