Job 10:20

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Job 14:1 : 1 Man who is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.
  • Ps 39:13 : 13 O spare me, so I may recover strength, before I go away and am no more.
  • Ps 103:15-16 : 15 As for man, his days are like grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourishes. 16 For the wind passes over it, and it is gone; and its place remembers it no more.
  • Ps 39:5 : 5 Behold, you have made my days as a handbreadth; and my age is as nothing before you: truly every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
  • 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; my eye shall see good no more.
  • Job 7:16-21 : 16 I loathe it; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are vanity. 17 What is man, that you should magnify him, and that you should set your heart upon him? 18 And that you should visit him every morning, and test him every moment? 19 How long will you not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow my spittle? 20 I have sinned; what shall I do unto you, O preserver of men? Why have you set me as a mark against you, so that I am a burden to myself? 21 And why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now shall I sleep in the dust, and you shall seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
  • Job 8:9 : 9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow:)
  • Job 9:25-26 : 25 Now my days are swifter than a runner: they flee away, they see no good. 26 They pass away like swift ships: like the eagle hastening to the prey.
  • Job 13:21 : 21 Withdraw your hand far from me, and let not your dread make me afraid.

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  • 21 Before I go to the place from which I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

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    18 Why then have You 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.

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    9 Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!

    10 Then I should still have comfort; yes, I would harden myself in sorrow. Let him not spare, for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.

    11 What is my strength, that I should hope? And what is my end, that I should prolong my life?

  • 22 When a few years come, then I shall go the way from which I shall not return.

  • Job 7:15-16
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    15 so that my soul chooses strangling, and death rather than my life.

    16 I loathe it; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are vanity.

  • 13 O spare me, so I may recover strength, before I go away and am no more.

  • 27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and console myself:

  • 1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.

  • Job 14:13-14
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    13 Oh that You would hide me in the grave, that You would keep me secret, until Your wrath is past, that You would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

    14 If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my appointed time I will wait, till my change comes.

  • Job 10:1-2
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    1 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

    2 I will say to God, Do not condemn me; show me why You contend with me.

  • 11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.

  • 10 I said in the prime of my days, I shall go to the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the rest of my years.

  • Job 13:13-15
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    13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let happen to me what will.

    14 Why do I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hand?

    15 Though he slays me, yet will I trust in him; but I will defend my own ways before him.

  • Job 7:20-21
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    20 I have sinned; what shall I do unto you, O preserver of men? Why have you set me as a mark against you, so that I am a burden to myself?

    21 And why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now shall I sleep in the dust, and you shall seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.

  • 17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, nor has he covered the darkness from my face.

  • Job 13:19-20
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    19 Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I keep silent, I shall die.

    20 Only do not do two things to me, then I will not hide myself from you.

  • 4 As for me, is my complaint to a man? And if it were, why should my spirit not be troubled?

  • 12 My lifespan is gone, taken from me like a shepherd's tent: I have cut off my life like a weaver; He cuts me off with pining sickness: from day to night You make an end of me.

  • 18 When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint within me.

  • 13 Is not my help within me? And is wisdom driven quite from me?

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    6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

    7 Oh, remember that my life is a breath; my eye shall see good no more.

  • 13 When I say, 'My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint,'

  • 5 Are Your days as the days of man? Are Your years as man's days,

  • 13 If I wait, the grave is my house; I have made my bed in the darkness.

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    23 He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.

    24 I said, "O my God, do not take me away in the midst of my days; your years are throughout all generations."

  • 11 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

  • 3 Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.

  • 10 Remove your stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of your hand.

  • 4 LORD, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is; so I may know how frail I am.

  • 47 Remember how short my time is; why have you made all men in vain?

  • 6 Though I speak, my grief is not eased; and though I forbear, what am I relieved?

  • 18 Why did I come forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

  • 15 And where now is my hope? As for my hope, who shall see it?

  • 10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

  • 10 Because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide sorrow from my eyes.

  • 7 There the righteous might dispute with him, so I would be delivered forever from my judge.

  • 2 Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God watched over me;

  • 15 What shall I say? He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.