Job 10:20 · KJV
“{Are} not my days few? cease {then, and} let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,”
— Job 10:20
I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
Before I go {whence} I shall not return, {even} to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
Job 10 — Context
Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
19I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
20{Are} not my days few? cease {then, and} let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
21Before I go {whence} I shall not return, {even} to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
22A land of darkness, as darkness {itself; and} of the shadow of death, without any order, and {where} the light {is} as darkness.
Cross References
Job 14:1
Man {that is} born of a woman {is} of few days, and full of trouble. {few...: Heb. short of days}
Psalms 39:13
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
Job 7:16-21
I loathe {it}; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days {are} vanity.
Job 13:21
Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
Psalms 39:5
Behold, thou hast made my days {as} an handbreadth; and mine age {is} as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state {is} altogether vanity. Selah. {at...: Heb. settled}
Job 9:25-26
Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
Job 8:9
(For we {are but of} yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth {are} a shadow:) {nothing: Heb. not}
Psalms 103:15-16
{As for} man, his days {are} as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.