Job 10:20
18 Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
19 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
21 Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
22 A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort,
- KJV
- Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
- 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,
- DARBY
- Are not my days few? cease then and let me alone, that I may revive a little,
- BLB
- Are not my days few? Then cease and withdraw from me, and let me smile a little,
- ÅB
- Er ikke mine dager få? - Han holde opp! Han la meg være, så jeg kan bli litt glad,
- OTB
- Er ikke mine dager få?
Stopp, la meg være, så jeg kan ha litt glede - B1930
- Er ikke mine dager få? - Han holde op! Han la mig være, så jeg kan bli litt glad,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 14:1
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
Read in contextPsalms 39:13
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
Read in contextPsalms 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.
Read in contextJob 9:25–26
Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
Read in contextJob 7:6–7
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
Read in contextJob 13:21
Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
Read in contextJob 7:16–21
I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
Read in contextJob 8:9
(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
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