20 Are not the days of my life small in number? Let your eyes be turned away from me, so that I may have a little pleasure,
As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble.
Let your wrath be turned away from me, so that I may be comforted, before I go away from here, and become nothing.
I have no desire for life, I would not be living for ever! Keep away from me, for my days are as a breath. What is man, that you have made him great, and that your attention is fixed on him, And that your hand is on him every morning, and that you are testing him every minute? How long will it be before your eyes are turned away from me, so that I may have a minute's breathing-space? If I have done wrong, what have I done to you, O keeper of men? why have you made me a mark for your blows, so that I am a weariness to myself? And why do you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.
(For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:)
Take your hand far away from me; and let me not be overcome by fear of you.
You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.)
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Commentary on Job 10 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 10
Job owns here that he was full of confusion (v. 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,
Job 10:1-7
Here is,
Job 10:8-13
In these verses we may observe,
Job 10:14-22
Here we have,