God’s Word Translation
Job 10:20
20“ ‘Isn’t my life short enough? So stop ⌞this⌟, and leave me alone. Let me 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 take me out of the womb? I wish I had breathed my last breath before anyone had laid eyes on me. 19Then it would be as if I had never existed, as if I had been carried from the womb to the tomb. “ ‘Isn’t my life short enough? So stop ⌞this⌟, and leave me alone. Let me smile a little 21before I go away to a land of darkness and gloom, 22to a dismal land of long shadows and confusion where light is as bright as darkness. I’ll never return.’ ”
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 go swifter than a weaver’s shuttle. They are spent without hope.
- Job 8:9We have only been around since yesterday, and we know nothing. Our days on earth are only a fleeting shadow.
- Job 9:25“My days go by more quickly than a runner. They sprint away. They don’t see anything good.
- Job 14:1“A person who is born of a woman is short-lived and is full of trouble.
- Psalms 39:5Indeed, you have made the length of my days ⌞only⌟ a few inches. My life span is nothing compared to yours. Certainly, everyone alive is like a whisper in the wind. Selah
- Psalms 103:15Human life is as short-lived as grass. It blossoms like a flower in the field.
- Job 7:17“What is a mortal that you should make so much of him, that you should be concerned about him?
- Job 13:21Stop oppressing me. Don’t let your terror frighten me.
- Psalms 39:13Look away from me so that I may smile again before I go away and am no more.
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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