King James Version
Job 10:20 in the King James Version says “Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone , that I may take comfort a little,” — study this verse from Job chapter 10 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone , that I may take comfort a little,”
Job 10:20 · KJV
Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone , that I may take comfort a little,
Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
KJV Study — Public Domain
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
“Are not my days”
H3117a 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 asso
“cease”
H2308properly, to be flabby, i.e., (by implication) desist; (figuratively) be lacking or idle
“that I may take comfort”
H1082to break off or loose (in a favorable or unfavorable sense), i.e., desist (from grief) or invade (with destruction)
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