Job 10:20 Cross References - CLV

²⁰ Are not the days of my transient lifetime few? Set away from me that I may smile a little,

⁶ My days are fleeter than a weaver's shuttle, And they shall conclude with the limit of the weaving thread. ⁷ Remember that my life is a wind; My eye shall not turn back again to see good.

¹⁶ I reject this; I would not live for the eon; Leave off from me, for my days are vanity. ¹⁷ What is a mortal that You should make a great thing of him, Or that You should set Your heart on him? ¹⁸ Or You should note him every morning, And You should test him every moment? ¹⁹ How long shall You not heed me, Or not let me relax even until I swallow my saliva? ²⁰ I have sinned, Yet what do I contrive against You, O Preserver of mankind? Why have You established me as Your target mark, That I should become a load to You? ²¹ Why do You not bear my transgression And pass over my depravity? For now I shall lie in the soil, And You would seek me early, but I will not be there.

⁹ For we are of yesterday, and we know nothing, For our days on the earth are but a shadow.

²⁵ My days are fleeter than a runner; They race away without having seen good. ²⁶ They pass on like ships of bulrush, Like the vulture that pounces down on its food.

²¹ Keep Your palm far from me, And let not the dread of You frighten me.

¹ A human, born of a woman, Is short of days and surfeited with disturbance.

⁵ Behold, You have made my days as handbreadths, And my transient lifetime is as nothing in front of You. Yea, all of humanity, standing up, is altogether a transitory breath. {Interlude{ "

¹³ Take Your probing heed from me that I may smile, Ere I shall go away and be no more. {Permanent{ "

¹⁵ As for mortal man, his days are like grass, Like a blossom of the field, so is he blossoming." ¹⁶ For the wind, it passes over him, and he is no more, And his place shall not recognize him any longer."