Job 10:20

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Job 10:18–22 · Berean Standard Bible

18 Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!

19 If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave.

20 Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort,

21 before I go—never to return— to a land of darkness and gloom,

22 to a land of utter darkness, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Job 7:6

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.

Job 7:7

Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness.

Job 7:16

I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

Job 8:9

For we were born yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are but a shadow.

Job 9:25

My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.

Job 9:26

They sweep by like boats of papyrus, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.

Job 14:1

“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.

Psalms 39:5

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

Psalms 103:15

As for man, his days are like grass— he blooms like a flower of the field;

Psalms 103:16

when the wind passes over, it vanishes, and its place remembers it no more.

Job 7:17

What is man that You should exalt him, that You should set Your heart upon him,

Job 7:18

that You attend to him every morning, and test him every moment?

Job 7:19

Will You never look away from me, or leave me alone to swallow my spittle?

Job 7:20

If I have sinned, what have I done to You, O watcher of mankind? Why have You made me Your target, so that I am a burden to You ?

Job 7:21

Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”

Job 13:21

Withdraw Your hand from me, and do not let Your terror frighten me.

Psalms 39:13

Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”