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Job 10:20
Good News Translation
Isn't my life almost over? Leave me alone! Let me enjoy the time I have left.

New Revised Standard Version
Are not the days of my life few? Let me alone, that I may find a little comfort

Contemporary English Version
I have only a few days left. Why don't you leave me alone? Let me find some relief, *

New American Bible
Are not my days few? Stop! Let me alone, that I may recover a little

Douay-Rheims Bible
Shall not the fewness of my days be ended shortly? Suffer me, therefore, that I may lament my sorrow a little:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Shall not the fewness of my days be ended shortly? Suffer me, therefore, that I may lament my sorrow a little:

my days few

Job 7:6,7,16 My days have passed more swiftly than the web is cut by the weaver, and are consumed without any hope. . . .

Job 8:9 (For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant that our days upon earth are but a shadow)

Job 9:25,26 My days have been swifter than a post: they have fled away and have not seen good. . . .

Job 14:1 Man born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries.

Psalm 39:5 Behold thou hast made my days measurable. and my substance is as nothing before thee. And indeed all things are vanity: every man living.

Psalm 103:15,16 Man's days are as grass, as the flower of the field so shall he flourish. . . .

cease

Job 7:17-21 What is a man, that thou shouldst magnify him or why dost thou set thy heart upon him? . . .

Job 13:21 Withdraw thy hand far from me, and let not thy dread terrify me.

Psalm 39:13 O forgive me, that I may be refreshed, before I go hence, and be no more.

Context
Job's Plea to God
19I should have been as if I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave. 20Shall not the fewness of my days be ended shortly? Suffer me, therefore, that I may lament my sorrow a little:21Before I go and return no more, to a land that is dark and covered with the mist of death:…
Cross References
Job 7:16
I have done with hope, I shall now live no longer: spare me, for my days are nothing.

Job 7:19
How long wilt thou not spare me, nor suffer me to swallow down my spittle?

Job 9:18
He alloweth not my spirit to rest, and he filleth me with bitterness.

Job 10:19
I should have been as if I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave.

Job 14:1
Man born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries.

Psalm 39:13
O forgive me, that I may be refreshed, before I go hence, and be no more.

Job 10:19
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