Job 10:20
Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
Job 10:20 in other translations
| BSB | Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort, |
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| WEB | Aren’t my days few? Stop! Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort, |
| ASV | Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, |
| YLT | Are not my days few? Cease then, and put from me, And I brighten up a little, |
| DARBY | Are not my days few? cease then and let me alone, that I may revive a little, |
| BBE | Are not the days of my life small in number? Let your eyes be turned away from me, so that I may have a little pleasure, |
| Webster | Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, |
What does Job 10:20 mean?
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 10:14-22
Job did not deny that as a sinner he deserved his sufferings; but he thought that justice was executed upon him with peculiar rigour. His gloom, unbelief, and hard thoughts of God, were as much to be ascribed to Satan's inward temptations, and his anguish of soul, under the sense of God's displeasure, as to his outward trials, and remaining depravity. Our Creator, become in Christ our Redeemer also, will not destroy…
Job 10:20 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 10:20
- Job 14:1
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
- Psalms 39:13
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
- Psalms 39:5
Behold, 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.
- Job 9:25-26
Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good. They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.
- Job 7:6-7
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope. O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
- Job 13:21
Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
- Job 7:16-21
I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity. What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him? And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment? How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle? …
- Job 8:9
(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
- Psalms 103:15-16
As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
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Context
- Job 10:19
I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
- Job 10:20
Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
- Job 10:21
Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
Job 10:20 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | ¿No son mis días poca cosa? Cesa pues, y déjame, para que me conforte un poco. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Mes jours ne sont-ils pas en petit nombre? Qu’il cesse donc, qu’il se retire de moi, et je me remonterai un peu, |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Sind meiner Tage nicht wenige? Er lasse ab, wende sich von mir, daß ich ein wenig mich erheitere, |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Numquid non paucitas dierum meorum finietur brevi? dimitte ergo me, ut plangam paululum dolorem meum, |