“Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,”
Job requests that God let him alone for the few days of his life, seeking respite from divine scrutiny and assault. The phrase 'few days' acknowledges the brevity of human life and requests that the remaining time be left undisturbed. The appeal for solitude and peace suggests that consciousness of divine hostility is itself a form of torture.
Church Fathers on Job 10:20
Will not the small number of my days be finished in a short time? He shews himself to live with good heed and circumspection, who, in considering the shortness of the present life does not look to the furtherance but to the ending of it, so as to gather from the end, that all is nought that delights while it is passing. For hence it is said by Solomon, But if a man live many years and rejoice in them all, yet let him remember the time of darkness, and the days that shall be…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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