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Job 10

Job 10:20 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Are not my days
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
few
m`at (Hebrew #4592)
from 4591; a little or few (often adverbial or compar.)
KJV usage: almost (some, very) few(-er, -est), lightly, little (while), (very) small (matter, thing), some, soon, X very.
Pronounce: meh-at'
Origin: or miat {meh-awt'}
t? cease
chadal (Hebrew #2308)
properly, to be flabby, i.e. (by implication) desist; (figuratively) be lacking or idle
KJV usage: cease, end, fall, forbear, forsake, leave (off), let alone, rest, be unoccupied, want.
Pronounce: khaw-dal'
Origin: a primitive root
chadal (Hebrew #2308)
properly, to be flabby, i.e. (by implication) desist; (figuratively) be lacking or idle
KJV usage: cease, end, fall, forbear, forsake, leave (off), let alone, rest, be unoccupied, want.
Pronounce: khaw-dal'
Origin: a primitive root
then, and let me alone
shiyth (Hebrew #7896)
to place (in a very wide application)
KJV usage: apply, appoint, array, bring, consider, lay (up), let alone, X look, make, mark, put (on), + regard, set, shew, be stayed, X take.
Pronounce: sheeth
Origin: a primitive root
shiyth (Hebrew #7896)
to place (in a very wide application)
KJV usage: apply, appoint, array, bring, consider, lay (up), let alone, X look, make, mark, put (on), + regard, set, shew, be stayed, X take.
Pronounce: sheeth
Origin: a primitive root
, that I may take comfort
balag (Hebrew #1082)
to break off or loose (in a favorable or unfavorable sense), i.e. desist (from grief) or invade (with destruction)
KJV usage: comfort, (recover) strength(-en).
Pronounce: baw-lag'
Origin: a primitive root
a little
m`at (Hebrew #4592)
from 4591; a little or few (often adverbial or compar.)
KJV usage: almost (some, very) few(-er, -est), lightly, little (while), (very) small (matter, thing), some, soon, X very.
Pronounce: meh-at'
Origin: or miat {meh-awt'}
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Psa. 39:5,13• 5Behold, 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.
 13O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more. (Psa. 39:5,13)

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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my days few.
Job 7:6‑7,16• 6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
 7O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
 16I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity. (Job 7:6‑7,16)
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Job 8:9• 9(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:) (Job 8:9)
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Job 9:25‑26• 25Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
 26They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey. (Job 9:25‑26)
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Job 14:1• 1Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. (Job 14:1)
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Psa. 39:5• 5Behold, 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. (Psa. 39:5)
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Psa. 103:15‑16• 15As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
 16For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more. (Psa. 103:15‑16)
cease.
Job 7:17‑21• 17What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?
 18And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?
 19How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
 20I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?
 21And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be. (Job 7:17‑21)
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Job 13:21• 21Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid. (Job 13:21)
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Psa. 39:13• 13O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more. (Psa. 39:13)
• {v.20-22} Pitifully, Job asks a brief respite, a surcease of sorrow before he goes hence and is no more. It is the lament again of chapter 3. (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Are not my days few? cease then and let me alone, that I may revivef a little,

JND Translation Notes

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Or "brighten up," as ch. 9. 27.