Christian Standard Bible
Job 10:20
20Are my days not few? Stop it! Leave me alone, so that I can smile a little
Job 10:20 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
- New International Version (NIV)Are not my few days almost over? Turn away from me so I can have a moment’s joy
- English Standard Version (ESV)Are not my days few? Then cease, and leave me alone, that I may find a little cheer
- New King James Version (NKJV)Are not my days few? Cease! Leave me alone, that I may take a little comfort,
Context of Job 10:20
18“Why did you bring me out of the womb? I should have died and never been seen. 19I wish I had never existed but had been carried from the womb to the grave. Are my days not few? Stop it! Leave me alone, so that I can smile a little 21before I go to a land of darkness and gloom, never to return. 22It is a land of blackness like the deepest darkness, gloomy and chaotic, where even the light is like the darkness.”
Read all of Job 10Job 10:20 word by word
הֲלֹא־מְעַ֣ט יָמַ֣י וַחֲדָ֑ל וְשִׁ֥ית מִ֝מֶּ֗נִּי וְאַבְלִ֥יגָה מְּעָֽט׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 10:20
- Job 7:6My days pass more swiftly than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.
- Job 8:9since we were born only yesterday and know nothing. Our days on earth are but a shadow.
- Job 9:25My days fly by faster than a runner; they flee without seeing any good.
- Job 14:1Anyone born of woman is short of days and full of trouble.
- Psalms 39:5In fact, you have made my days just inches long, and my life span is as nothing to you. Yes, every human being stands as only a vapor.Selah
- Psalms 103:15As for man, his days are like grass — he blooms like a flower of the field;
- Job 7:17What is a mere human, that you think so highly of him and pay so much attention to him?
- Job 13:21remove your hand from me, and do not let your terror frighten me.
- Psalms 39:13Turn your angry gaze from me so that I may be cheered up before I die and am gone.”
Commentaries on Job 10:20
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 20Are not my days few? - My life cannot be long; let me have a little respite before I die.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 20Are not my days few? - My life is short, and hastens to a close. Let not then my afflictions be continued to the last moment of life, but let thine hand be removed, that I may enjoy some rest before I go hence, to return no more. This is an address to God, and the meaning is, that as life was necessarily so short, he asked to be permitted to enjoy some comfort before he should go to the land of darkness and of death; compare the note at Job 7:21. A…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 14-22Verses 14-22 Job did not deny that as a sinner he deserved his sufferings; but he thought that justice was executed upon him with peculiar rigour. His gloom, unbelief, and hard thoughts of God, were as much to be ascribed to Satan's inward temptations, and his anguish of soul, under the sense of God's displeasure, as to his outward trials, and remaining depravity. Our Creator, become in Christ our Redeemer also, will not destroy the work of his hands in…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 20-22Earlier, Job described "Sheol" as a somewhat peaceful place (3:13–19). Now, he calls it a land of darkness and gloom (see also 7:9–10; 14:7–22).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2020. But, since I was destined from my birth to these ills, at least give me a little breathing time during the few days left me (Job 9:34; 13:21; Psa 39:13).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 10
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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