Job 10:20

World English Bible (2000)

Aren't my days few? Cease then. Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 14:1 : 1 "Man, who 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 away, and exist no more." For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
  • 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. Its place remembers it no more.
  • Ps 39:5 : 5 Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." 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 no more see good.
  • Job 7:16-21 : 16 I loathe my life. I don't want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath. 17 What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him, 18 that you should visit him every morning, and test him every moment? 19 How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle? 20 If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself? 21 Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, 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 have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.
  • Job 13:21 : 21 withdraw your hand far from me; and don't let your terror make me afraid.

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