Job 10:20
Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
* Are not my dayes few? cease then, and let me alone that I may take comfort a litle,
Original 1611 marginTranslation notes and cross-references are kept distinct.
- *Cross-referenceSee Chap. 8.9. and 7.6.
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- Psalms 39:13Rank 2 from verse 20
- Job 7:16–21Rank 4 from verse 20
16I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
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.
16I loath it, I would not liue alway: let me alone, for my dayes are vanitie.
17*What is man, that thou shouldest magnifie him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart vpon him?
18And that thou shouldest visite him euery morning, and trie him euery moment?
19How long wilt thou not depart from me? nor let me alone till I swallow downe my spittle?
20I haue sinned, what shall I doe vnto thee, O thou preseruer of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to my selfe?
21And why doest thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquitie? for now shall I sleepe in the dust, and thou shalt seeke me in the morning, but I shall not be.
- Job 9:25–26Rank 7 from verse 20
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.
25Now my dayes are swifter then a Poste: they flee away, they see no good.
26They are passed away as the †‖swift ships: as the Eagle that hasteth to the pray.
- Psalms 103:15–16Rank 8 from verse 20
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.
15 As for man, his dayes are as grasse: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
16†For the winde passeth ouer it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
- Psalms 39:5Rank 9 from verse 20
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.
5†*Behold, thou hast made my dayes as an hand breadth, and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily euery man at his best state is altogether vanitie. Selah.
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Job 10:20
To stop or leave off, to come to an end, or to cause something to stop or end.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references
Sense 1: To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain. Sense 2: To lower or send down.
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1. Without others, company, or help; by oneself. 2. Only or solely. 3. In "let ... alone," to leave undisturbed or refrain from interfering with.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828
To receive, seize, carry, accept, choose, or lay hold of.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893
Sense 1: Strength, relief, encouragement, or consolation in distress. Sense 2: To strengthen, encourage, or console.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references
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19I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
19I should haue bene as though I had not bene, I should haue bene caried from the wombe to the graue.
20Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
20* Are not my dayes few? cease then, and let me alone that I may take comfort a litle,
Selected passage21Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
21Before I goe whence I shall not returne, euen to the land of darknes and the shadow of death,