Job’s Plea to God
Job 10:20
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort,
- KJV
- Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
- WEB
- Aren’t my days few? Stop! Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
- ASV
- Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
- LSV
- Are my days not few? Cease then, and put from me, || And I brighten up a little,
- YLT
- Are not my days few? Cease then, and put from me, And I brighten up a little,
- DBY
- Are not my days few? cease then and let me alone, that I may revive a little,
- DRC
- Shall not the fewness of my days be ended shortly? suffer me, therefore, that I may lament my sorrow a little:
- GNV
- Are not my dayes fewe? let him cease, and leaue off from me, that I may take a litle comfort,
- JPS
- Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
- LXXE
- Is not the time of my life short? suffer me to rest a little,
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- Written (Ketiv): יֶחְדָּל (“may it cease”). Read aloud (Qere): וַחֲדָ֑ל (“and cease”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
- Written (Ketiv): יָשִׁית (“may he put”). Read aloud (Qere): וְשִׁ֥ית (“and put”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (2)
- Leningrad Codex reads יַחֲדָ֑ל; read aloud (Qere) reads וַחֲדָ֑ל (“and cease”).
- Leningrad Codex reads יְשִׁ֥ית; read aloud (Qere) reads וְשִׁ֥ית (“and put”).
Edition differences: STEP Bible, based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0). Names and codes expanded; consecutive words grouped. Comparisons follow the editions used by the source; see version details.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- הֲלֹא־מְעַ֣ט יָמַ֣י יחדל ישית מִ֝מֶּ֗נִּי וְאַבְלִ֥יגָה מְּעָֽט׃Read aloud as (qere): וַחֲדָ֑לRead aloud as (qere): וְשִׁ֥ית
- LXX-Br
- Ἢ οὐκ ὀλίγος ἐστὶν ὁ βίος τοῦ χρόνου μου; ἔασόν με ἀναπαύσασθαι μικρὸν,
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Cross-references most cited first
- Job 14:1“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.
- Psalms 39:13Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”
- Job 13:21Withdraw Your hand from me, and do not let Your terror frighten me.
- Job 9:25–26My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good. They sweep by like boats of papyrus, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.
- Job 7:6–7My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope. Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness.
- Psalms 39:5You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
- Psalms 103:15–16As for man, his days are like grass— he blooms like a flower of the field; when the wind passes over, it vanishes, and its place remembers it no more.
- Job 7:16–21I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath. What is man that You should exalt him, that You should set Your heart upon him, that You attend to him every morning, and test…
- Job 8:9For we were born yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are but a shadow.
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