Job 10:20

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הֲלֹא־מְעַ֣ט יָמַ֣י *יחדל **וַחֲדָ֑ל *ישית **וְשִׁ֥ית מִ֝מֶּ֗נִּי וְאַבְלִ֥יגָה מְּעָֽט׃

Transliteration

?not few yāmay yḥdl/waḥădāl yšyt/wəšît from me and ʾabəlîgâ məʿāṭ

Grammar Details

*yāmay*: noun, masculine plural construct with 1st person suffix - my days
*yḥdl*/*waḥădāl*: Qal imperative/jussive, masculine singular - cease/desist
*yšyt*/*wəšît*: Qal imperative, masculine singular - turn away/cease
*ʾabəlîgâ*: Hiphil imperfect cohortative, 1st singular - I may find relief
*məʿāṭ*: adverb - a little

Word Meanings

*yḥdl*/*waḥădāl*: cease/desist/leave off
*yšyt*/*wəšît*: turn away/cease/set aside
*ʾabəlîgâ*: I may find relief/I may recover/I may take comfort
*məʿāṭ*: a little/for a while/briefly

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

Job 14:1 : 1 Man, that is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble.
Ps 39:13 : 13 Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go hence, and be no more.
Ps 103:15-16 : 15 As for man, his days are as grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. 16 For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; And the place thereof shall know it no more.
Ps 39:5 : 5 Behold, thou hast made my days [as] handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. {H5542}
Job 7:6-7 : 6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, And are spent without hope. 7 Oh remember that my life is a breath: Mine eye shall no more see good.
Job 7:16-21 : 16 I loathe [my life]; I would not live alway: Let me alone; for my days are vanity. 17 What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him, And that thou shouldest set thy mind upon him, 18 And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, And try him every moment? 19 How long wilt thou not look away from me, Nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle? 20 If I have sinned, what I unto thee, O thou watcher of men? Why hast thou set me as a mark for thee, So that I am a burden to myself? 21 And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust; And thou wilt seek me diligently, but I shall not be.
Job 8:9 : 9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days upon earth are a shadow);
Job 9:25-26 : 25 Now my days are swifter than a post: They flee away, they see no good, 26 They are passed away as the swift ships; As the eagle that swoopeth on the prey.
Job 13:21 : 21 Withdraw thy hand far from me; And let not thy terror make me afraid.

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