Job 10:20
Cross References

Shall not the fewness of my days be ended shortly? Suffer me, therefore, that I may lament my sorrow a little:

Job 7:16
I have done with hope, I shall now live no longer: spare me, for my days are nothing.

Job 7:19
How long wilt thou not spare me, nor suffer me to swallow down my spittle?

Job 9:18
He alloweth not my spirit to rest, and he filleth me with bitterness.

Job 10:19
I should have been as if I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave.

Job 14:1
Man born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries.

Psalm 39:13
O forgive me, that I may be refreshed, before I go hence, and be no more.

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Shall not the fewness of my days be ended shortly? Suffer me, therefore, that I may lament my sorrow a little:

my days few

Job 7:6,7,16 My days have passed more swiftly than the web is cut by the weaver, and are consumed without any hope. . . .

Job 8:9 (For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant that our days upon earth are but a shadow)

Job 9:25,26 My days have been swifter than a post: they have fled away and have not seen good. . . .

Job 14:1 Man born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries.

Psalm 39:5 Behold thou hast made my days measurable. and my substance is as nothing before thee. And indeed all things are vanity: every man living.

Psalm 103:15,16 Man's days are as grass, as the flower of the field so shall he flourish. . . .

cease

Job 7:17-21 What is a man, that thou shouldst magnify him or why dost thou set thy heart upon him? . . .

Job 13:21 Withdraw thy hand far from me, and let not thy dread terrify me.

Psalm 39:13 O forgive me, that I may be refreshed, before I go hence, and be no more.

Context
Job's Plea to God
19I should have been as if I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave. 20Shall not the fewness of my days be ended shortly? Suffer me, therefore, that I may lament my sorrow a little:21Before I go and return no more, to a land that is dark and covered with the mist of death:…
Lexicon
Are my days
יָמַ֣י (yā·may)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 3117: A day

not
הֲלֹא־ (hă·lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

few?
מְעַ֣ט (mə·‘aṭ)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4592: A little, fewness, a few

Withdraw
וַחֲדָ֑ל (wa·ḥă·ḏāl)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2308: To be flabby, desist, be lacking, idle

from me,
מִ֝מֶּ֗נִּי (mim·men·nî)
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 4480: A part of, from, out of

that I may have a little comfort,
וְאַבְלִ֥יגָה (wə·’aḇ·lî·ḡāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive imperfect Cohortative - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 1082: To break off, loose, desist, invade


Additional Translations
Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort,Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

Is not the time of my life short? suffer me to rest a little,

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

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

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

Aren't my days few? Cease then. Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

Are not my days few? Cease then, and put from me, And I brighten up a little,
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