Job 10:20
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Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort,
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Job owns here that he was full of confusion (Job 10:15), and as he was so was his discourse: he knew not what to say, and perhaps sometimes scarcely knew what he said. In this chapter, I. He complains of the hardships he was under (Job 10:1-7), and then comforts himself with this, that he was in the hand of the God that made him, and pleads that (Job 10:8-13). II. He complains again of the severity of God's dealings with him (Job 10:14-17), and then comforts himself with this, that death would put an end to his troubles (Job 10:18-22).
Open source ↗10:20-22 Earlier, Job had painted a fairly pleasant picture of Sheol (3:13-19); now he describes it as a land of darkness and utter gloom (see also 7:9-10; 14:7-22).
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“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.
Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”
For we were born yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are but a shadow.
Withdraw Your hand from me, and do not let Your terror frighten me.
You, 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